Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fidel Castro
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
Taya Kyle
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
Lara Logan
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I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
Fairuza Balk
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Patricia Polacco
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Larry Elder
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
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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 -
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
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There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.
Priscilla Presley
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Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.
Nora Lum
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Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
Lois Lowry
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
Famke Janssen
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I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.
Iwan Rheon
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf