Death Quotes
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For some people, the principle of the caste system will remain in effect: The reward for the obedient is to be transported after death to some fabulous other world where, according to the old beliefs, good people are rewarded.
Che Guevara -
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
Platon Antoniou
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Albert Einstein -
The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. ... The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
Daniel Kahneman -
'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard -
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler -
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.
Alison Jackson
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey -
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk -
The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel.... A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant.
Pat Buchanan -
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster -
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein -
What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.
Kirk Cameron -
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon -
Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
Jeff Buckley -
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.
Lisa See
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Rachel Cusk -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
Emily Bronte -
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
Wendell Berry