Death Quotes
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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.
Andie MacDowell
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
J. B. Priestley
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
Vladimir Nabokov
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[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
C. S. Lewis
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the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.
Mark Rothko
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When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.
Nabil Elaraby
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What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
Cressida Cowell
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To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.
Oswald Chambers
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Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Every fear is fear of death.
Wilhelm Stekel
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P. D. James
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
Mahatma Gandhi
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You're the only thing I want most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You cannot go where I walk." -Dank "Death" Walker
Abbi Glines
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I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths [...] I can see much to admire in all religions [...] But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Jose Saramago
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There is no wisdom but in death
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up.
Elijah Wood
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Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.
Becky Fischer
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It is the story of obscure beginnings, the story of a boy who, barely eleven, after his father’s early death, had to take on the burden of being the “man of the family”; a story of great hardships, of vision and determination, of sorrow and success.
Bob Buford
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The idea that life on earth is so infinitely precious that the death which robs us of it must be the ultimate tragedy is precisely the idolatry that God is often trying to combat.
G. B. Caird