Death Quotes
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Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
Sara Teasdale
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"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
Charles Dickens
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Knowledge is the death of research.
Walther Nernst
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
George Sewell
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
Victor Hugo
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
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The probability of death is quite high on the first human mission to Mars.
Elon Musk
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If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
Lionel Barrymore
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And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
William Shakespeare
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
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I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.
Javier Solana
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
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There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.
Nicholas Evans
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She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
Mojo Nixon
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I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other things I have not succeeded in doing, I would consider my political career to have been a resounding success.
Ernie Chambers
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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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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
Catherynne M. Valente
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But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
Steve King
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Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.
William Ernest Henley
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
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My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.
H. Rider Haggard
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Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.
Wallace Stegner
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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