Death Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Bible’s Song of Solomon, “Love is strong as death.” Or perhaps even stronger.
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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.
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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.
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure – all the more intense for being held tightly in – his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.
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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.
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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.
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From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.
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I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
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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.
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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.
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
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There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We cannot save all the world's children but we can save many of them.
