Death Quotes
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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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One family - we dwell in Him,One church above, beneath,Though now divided by the stream,The narrow stream of death.
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Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.
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Take a sip from the cup of death...
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
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I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
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Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
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No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!
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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
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A simple right or left can mean life or death,
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Atheism is a religion of death. Though atheists make their own 'meaning' or 'purpose' while alive, ultimately atheism is all meaningless, purposeless, and utterly hopeless.
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The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
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You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
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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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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony...
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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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I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
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Death,-a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
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I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.
