Death Quotes
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There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
Emily Dickinson -
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells -
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
John Calvin -
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain -
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde -
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain -
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
Dan Farmer -
All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Oscar Wilde -
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For instance, I have never believed that Jesus Christ would approve either abortions or the death penalty, but I obeyed such Supreme Court decisions to the best of my ability, at the same time attempting to minimize what I considered to be their adverse impact.
Jimmy Carter -
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.
L. Neil Smith -
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
Lord Byron -
Life is as serious a thing as death.
Philip James Bailey -
Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars They need this instead Imagination, suffering, light and love And care for every human being You never steal, you never kill You are a part of hope and life The revolution goes from man to man And heart to heart And I sense when I look at the stars That we are children of life Death is small
Joan Baez
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde -
My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
Kate Brown -
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy -
Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.
Emil Cioran