Death Quotes
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To conquer death you only have to die.
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
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Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.
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Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
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A simple event like that, imagine. She went to her death thinking that maybe her husband was taken care of, but it wasn't that way and now he didn't get a cent.
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My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.
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Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
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Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
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The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.
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“You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death.”
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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I'm not afraid of death.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
