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Death Quotes

"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."

"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

Death, Work, Being, Drinking

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"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness."

"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness."

George Fox, English Clergyman

Death, Love, Darkness, Infinite

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"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."

"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."

Johnny Cash, American Musician

Death, Love, Father, Man

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"Death is better than slavery."

"Death is better than slavery."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

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"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me."

"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

Death, Life, People, Talk

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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."

"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 Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Food, Strength, Bravery

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"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death."

"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death."

Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

Death, Time, Work, People

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"The sole equality on earth is death."

"The sole equality on earth is death."

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

Death, Equality, Earth

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"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures."

"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures."

John Phillips, American Musician

Death, Life, Victory, Frustration

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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

Woody Allen, American Director

Death, Experience

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"I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me."

"I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me."

Elizabeth Edwards, American Lawyer

Death, Open, Television

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"Death's in the good-bye."

"Death's in the good-bye."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

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"Death is the most blessed dream."

"Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

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"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."

"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

Death, Women, Cause, Leading

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"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution."

"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution."

Donald Johanson, American Scientist

Death, Ideas, Evolution, Will

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"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

Death, God, Man

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"Early this morning, I signed my death warrant."

"Early this morning, I signed my death warrant."

Michael Collins, Irish Leader

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"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."

"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."

"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors."

James Woods, American Actor

Death, Attitude, Favors, Hollywood

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"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."

"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."

Jo Brand, British Comedian

Death, Funny, People, Children

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"Many cats are the death of the mouse."

"Many cats are the death of the mouse."

Kaspar Hauser, German Celebrity

Death, Cats, Mouse

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"One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated."

"One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated."

Jeremy Brett, British Actor

Death, Wife, People, Holiday

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"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."

"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

Death, Life, Nothing

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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Francis Beaumont, English Playwright

Death, Love, Fear, Man

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"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."

"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."

Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

Death, Nature, Fact, Ugly

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"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."

"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."

George Eads, American Actor

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"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Death, Life, Enjoyment, Insects

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"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

Michael Shermer, American Writer

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"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death."

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death."

Rupert Holmes, English Composer

Death, Life, Success, Failure

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"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."

"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."

Johann Arndt, German Theologian

Death, Virtue, Christian, Exercise

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"At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death."

"At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death."

Klaus Fuchs, German Physicist

Death, Time, Policy, Confidence

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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

Death, Men, Security

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"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Adrienne Rich, American Poet

Death, Life, Famine, Order

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"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."

Harold Kushner, American Clergyman

Death, Fear, Ending, Sleep

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"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."

"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

Death, Family, Cure, Nothing

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"Debate is the death of conversation."

"Debate is the death of conversation."

Kitty O'Neill Collins, American Stuntwoman

Death, Conversation, Debate

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"I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty."

"I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty."

Bill Paxton, American Actor

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"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."

"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."

Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher

Death, Day, Nothing, Old

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"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are."

"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are."

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexican Author

Death, Fear, Risk

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"I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end."

"I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end."

Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman

Death, Life, End, Now

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"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days."

"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days."

John Aubrey, English Writer

Death, Day, May, Remarkable

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"I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11."

"I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11."

Brett Hull, American Athlete

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"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death."

"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death."

George P. Baker, American Theorist

Death, Ending, Play, Tragedy

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"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

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"The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true."

"The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true."

Hugh Sidey, American Journalist

Death, Life, People, Decisions

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"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."

"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."

Eamon de Valera, Irish Statesman

Death, People, Courage, Confidence

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"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Death, Time, Cure, Freedom

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"I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless."

"I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless."

Stephen Baldwin, American Actor

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"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Death, Cause, Children, Deed

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"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."

"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."

Al Goldstein, American Publisher

Death, Deals, Question, Shakespeare

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