Death Quotes
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Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley
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Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?
Emil Cioran
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Death, doom and destruction rain down upon the forsaken. One being stands alone to save humanity. A soldier born from the past on sad wings of destiny. Powerful, unflinching and hearing the eternal forcethat will proclaim and assert metal's deliverance - The Redeemer of Souls!
Rob Halford Judas Priest
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Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.
Edward St Aubyn
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
Patrick Macnee
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xun Kuang
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Samuel Foote
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
Dan Simmons
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau
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The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
Bobby Lee Rush
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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
C. Everett Koop
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
Bill Berry R.E.M.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
Tammy Bruce
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
Tanith Lee
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
Joseph Heller
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If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.
Matthew Gray Gubler
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Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.
C. J. Mahaney
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Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.
Matthew Walker
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
Ed Sheeran