Death Quotes
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
James Clavell
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Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.
Katherine Dunn
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Edward Young
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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
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
Sam Harris
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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
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.
Charles Dickens
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
Vera Brittain
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Man makes a death which Nature never made.
Edward Young
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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
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
Louis Farrakhan
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Find Sister Caroline...And she's tired—She's weary—Go down, Death, and bring her to me.
James Weldon Johnson
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I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
Mattie Stepanek
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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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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
Al Green
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
Quentin Tarantino