Mario Van Peebles Quotes
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
Mario Van Peebles
Quotes to Explore
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
Viktor Orban
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian