Death Quotes
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
