Death Quotes
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?
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Today words like 'persevere' and 'hero’s death' had been so ceaselessly bandied about that they had long since acquired an ironic sound—at least wherever there was actual fighting. . . . Once, before an attack, Sturm had heard an old sergeant say the following: 'Kids, we’re going over there now to gobble up the Englishmen’s rations.' It was the best battle address that he had ever heard. That was surely something good in the war—that it destroyed glorious-sounding phrases. Concepts that hung fleshless in the void were overcome by laughter.
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To be an adult is to be close to death.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.
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...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
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Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.
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I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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The death of the victim doesn't change the validity of the charges in any way. It sort of strengthens the prosecution's case.
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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
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Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
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In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.
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My father was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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Death renders all equal.
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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
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We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.
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There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
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Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved.
