George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
Taya Kyle
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
Fiona Shaw
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
Gary Hume
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
Pablo Sandoval
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If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
P. D. James
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Only once in Chopin's music is there a direct reference to Bach, and that is, appropriately, at the beginning of his only educational work, the two sets of Etudes, Op. 10 and 25, and the three Nouvelles Etudes for Moscheles. In the first Etude, Op. 10, in C major, we find a modernized version of the Prelude no. 1 of the Well-Tempered Keyboard...
Charles Rosen
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This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
George Bernard Shaw
