Death Quotes
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Live how we can, yet die we must.
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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
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Death deserves dignity.
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
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But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
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The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.
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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
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Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
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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.
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I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.
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Where the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves kicked up by the horses' hoofs fills my soul with delight. I particularly love that smell, -- it brings before me the entire benevolence of Nature, for ever working death and decay, so piteous in themselves, into the means of fresh life and glory, and sending up sweet odours as she works.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
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Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.