Death Quotes
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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
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Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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To become a crowd is to keep out death.
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
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A useless life is an early death.
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
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Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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In fact, gory horror movies don't rank on the list of movies that I like. Good horror movies are great, but I just like good movies. I don't just watch grade Z garbage. That bores me to death.
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I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
