Death Quotes
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Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Death does not exist.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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A soldier's death, he thought, was a happy one, because a man, even in the throes of awful pain, would die in the best company of the world.
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Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
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The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
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Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about after Reinhardt's death in 1967.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
