Death Quotes
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
Gautama Buddha
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As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
Seneca the Younger
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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
Beth Revis
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
Albert Camus
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When a member of a unit military or non-military loses his life, or when a member has a death in the family, it’s the duty of the leader to take sincere action in expressing personal condolences, sympathy or any other appropriate steps considering the circumstances.
Hal Moore
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
Evan Esar
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
Bradley Denton
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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 are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.
Jim Caviezel
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The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
Salvador Dali
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
Ray Bradbury
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Death rock me asleep.
William Shakespeare
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
Eve Ensler
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Susan Cheever
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus
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I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
Brenda Fricker
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Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
Stevie Smith
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The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
Evelyn Anthony
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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