Death Quotes
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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Death is better than slavery.
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I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death for the soil that you believed belonged to you - that kind of extreme engagement is very difficult to flush out of your system - or your belief system, anyway.
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We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times. SeattlePi.com (May 17, 2002).
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I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
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During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
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Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
