Death Quotes
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha
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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
Brennan Manning
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You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.
Bobby Slayton
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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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Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
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When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
Dana Gould
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
Steve Earle
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I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
David Blaine
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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Death is real, irreversible, and awful. Do you want some advice? Don't wait until you're dead to try to communicate. Do it now. You still have a chance. Not a great one, but a better one than you will have. If you think it's hard to get your point across now, and that no one really understands what you're about, just try it when you're dead.
Alexander Jablokov
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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Thomas Hobbes
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She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
Elena Ferrante
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Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.
Andrew Davidson
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Seneca the Younger
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I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
Ismail Kadare
