Death Quotes
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Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
Norbert Elias
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
William Blake
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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Kurt Vonnegut
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Plato
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Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
Arthur Schnitzler
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U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
Yann Martel
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
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You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
Charles Ferguson Smith
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According to the producers of gripping podcast 'Death, Sex & Money', these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more.
David Hepworth
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The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.
James Salter
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die.
William Blake
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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
Confucius
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Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death.
Georges Brassens
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I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.
Claude Lanzmann
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Death mattered not - It was a mere puncutation.
Nathan Huggins
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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
Edgar Allan Poe
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
Emily Dickinson
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
Jim Butcher
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Life for the living, and rest for the dead!
George Arnold
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You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.
E. M. Forster
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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
Mother Teresa
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
George Bernard Shaw