Death Quotes
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And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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The most happy ought to wish for death.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.
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Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
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I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
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I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
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Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.
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Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.
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The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.
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Death is the final wake-up call.
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What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
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I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
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Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
