Death Quotes
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
Ajahn Chah
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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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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.
Bob Goff
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
William Hazlitt
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
Saul Bellow
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
Mother Teresa
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Cesare Pavese
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Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.
Esther Meynell
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Do not expect good from another's death.
Cato the Younger
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan
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Death hath no dominion.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Death deserves dignity.
Saul Bellow
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
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And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.
Robin LaFevers
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
Thomas Carlyle
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Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
Eugene Ormandy
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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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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.
Elizabeth von Arnim