William Cowper Quotes
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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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.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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Death does not exist.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
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I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
