Death Quotes
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Seneca the Younger
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
Betty MacDonald
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
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Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
Arthur Schnitzler
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Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
Michael Cacoyannis
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That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
Bill Mollison
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I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because what if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead. And this is my greatest fear: After 301 years, when they pull my glass coffin from this morgue, and they let my body thaw like chicken meat on the kitchen counter, I will be just like I am now. I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. There is nothing beyond this. I will be locked within myself forever. And I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can't. I can't.
Beth Revis
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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
Charles Dickens
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller
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All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
Gautama Buddha
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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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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The angel of death, she said proudly, touched me when I was a child, with the exact same illness as now, but I screwed him, even though I was just a girl. And you'll see, I'll screw him again, because I know how to suffer. I learned at the age of ten, I haven't stopped since. And if you know how to suffer, the angel respects you, after a while he goes away. As she spoke she pulled up her dress and showed me the injured leg like the relic of an old battle. She smacked it, observing me with a fixed half-smile on her lips and terrified eyes.
Elena Ferrante
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Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.
Jud Wilhite
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
Sarah Vowell
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
