Death Quotes
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of 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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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
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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.
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Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
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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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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
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I realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
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I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to 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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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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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.
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His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal.
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She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
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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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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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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.
