Death Quotes
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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Very worried and nerveux for 1944. Life is dark – as is death. Close 1943.
Max Beckmann
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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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Only Mary Queen of Scots challenged the prevailing orthodoxy when she wore white to mourn the death of Lord Darnley in 1567, earning the title of ‘The White Queen’.
Catharine Arnold
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The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'
Kellyanne Conway
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
Albert Camus
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Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,-thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
Plutarch
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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
Kim Elizabeth
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I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
Lincoln Davis
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Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.
Chuck Klosterman
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
Lord Byron
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.
Freddie Stroma
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When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.
Peter Morgan
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
Daryl Franklin Hohl
