Death Quotes
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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Death submits to no one.
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The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
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When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
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My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.
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I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
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A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?
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To be anti-Zionist is to not want Zion to exist, to not want the Jews who live there to exist - it is to wish them death.
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I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.
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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.
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I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.
