Death Quotes
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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
Lin Yutang
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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Victor Hugo
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I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease... my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.
John Donne
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In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.
Margaret Atwood
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I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
Arthur Schnitzler
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It was a slow and brutal death for so many…Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.
Donald Trump
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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
Francis Bacon
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Death is not 'an eternal sleep!' Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: 'Death is the commencement of immortality!'
Maximilien Robespierre
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If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
Pablo Neruda
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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
James Forman, Jr.
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
Daryl Franklin Hohl
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The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
Anthony Kennedy
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the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)
Frances Bean Cobain
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
Confucius
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Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living.... How beautiful is all Death!
John Muir
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'Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.' ... They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
Chinua Achebe
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry
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What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
Cormac McCarthy
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death.
Peter Greenaway
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
John James Audubon
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
George Bernard Shaw