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Death Quotes


"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."


"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."


"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."


"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."


"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."


"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."


"I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death."


"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths."


"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."


"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed."


"I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas."


"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."


"Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt."


"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."



"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."


"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."


"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."


"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment."


"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."


"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."


"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life."


"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."


"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."


"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
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