Death Quotes
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Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
Mary Quant
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
Seneca the Younger
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We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.
Lao Tzu
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If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
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This thought is as a death.
William Shakespeare
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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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All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
William Cowper
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To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B
Joanne Rowling
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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I do everything in this life-or-death way.
Drew Barrymore
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Death's long anabasis.
Allen Tate
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel Foucault
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
Brennan Manning
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
Emily Dickinson
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It contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love. please know that you had mine, unconditional, and powerful and awesome. So strong that I can't believe it will die with me. I want to imagine it as a living thing that goes beyond my body and my death, as a vine that has grown and wound its way through the very core of you all, and cannot be uprooted or destroyed, but rather will hold you erect when everything else is crumbling and withering inside you.
Elizabeth Noble
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When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Pablo Picasso
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
Jasper Fforde
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald