Blaise Pascal Quotes
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
Quotes to Explore
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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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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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
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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.
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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.
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Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.
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A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
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It's the wheel of the world - turning around.
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I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.
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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
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Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
