Death Quotes
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always.
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
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Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
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What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
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From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.
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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
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And that was only one of the many occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I never hesitate strongly to recommend.
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In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry.
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Roosevelt was at his most impassioned when commented on the sadistic quality of lynchings: There are certain hideous sights which when once seen can never be wholly erased from the mental retina. The mere fact of having seen them implies degradation...Whoever in any part of our country has ever taken part in lawlessly putting to death a criminal by the dreadful torture of fire must forever after have the awful spectacle of his own handiwork seared into his brain and soul. He can never again be the same man.
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Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
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It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
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It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?
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I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
