Death Quotes
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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
ASAP Ferg
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
Lao Tzu
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In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...
Anna Akhmatova
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He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.
Colum McCann
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I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
Margaret Mahy
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It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
Barack Obama
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
Carolyn Kizer
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You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.
Philippe Petit
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I'm not afraid of death.
Maurice Sendak
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Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.
Dalai Lama
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Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.
Carlo D'Este
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
P. D. James
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I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
Marcia Wallace
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It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.
Peter Bergen
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As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
David Pajo
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There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death,
Bret Harte
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
George Eliot
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Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
Mac Miller
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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.”
Ambrose of Optina
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
Catullus
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Actors love to act all those death scenes.
Colin Baker