Death Quotes
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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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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
Montgomery Clift
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Erica Jong
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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.
Saul Alinsky
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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Albert Camus
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.
Elizabeth Goudge
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
Elena Ferrante
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
Steven Spielberg
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From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.
Hal Moore
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Bible’s Song of Solomon, “Love is strong as death.” Or perhaps even stronger.
Esther Earl
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
Ajahn Chah
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
Ezra Pound
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
Hermann Hesse
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Do not expect good from another's death.
Cato the Younger
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
Beth Revis
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Eric Holder
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Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
Eugene Ormandy
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Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe