Death Quotes
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Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.
Andy Webster
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Death is just a change in lifestyles.
Stephen Levine
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
Catherynne M. Valente
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
Seneca the Younger
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We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.
Bill Mollison
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If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
Dave Mustaine Metallica
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to death, each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
Homer
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The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
John Ruskin
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Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.
Paul Sparks
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
William Blake
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Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
Edmund Sears
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The leading cause of death is birth.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
Eve Ensler
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
Emily Dickinson
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We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.
Jim Caviezel
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare