Death Quotes
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson
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What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
Seneca the Younger
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
Laini Taylor
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
Caitlin Doughty
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte
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It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Socrates
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
Louis Farrakhan
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
Karen DeCrow
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Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.
Tacitus
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While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
Michael Tait
Newsboys
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'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S. J. Rozan