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Death Quotes

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past."

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

Death, Help, Journey, Past

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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

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"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."

"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

Death, Time, Irish

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"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me."

"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me."

Jane Grey, British Royalty

Death, God, Attention, Now

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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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"As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking."

"As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking."

Josh McDowell, American Writer

Death, Reward, Talking

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"I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on."

"I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on."

Louise Erdrich, American Writer

Death, Talking, Word

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"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."

"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."

Henry Miller, American Author

Death, Life, Defeat, Man

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"And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be."

"And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be."

Alice Walker, American Author

Death, Love, Faith, Connection, Grief

31

"The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic."

"The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic."

Ben Vereen, American Actor

Death, Daughter, Nothing, Talk

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"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."

"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

Death, Life, God, People

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"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."

"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."

Peter Straub, American Writer

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"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

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"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty."

"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty."

Jerry Weller, American Politician

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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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"Death by starvation is slow."

"Death by starvation is slow."

Mary Austin, American Writer

Death, Starvation

30

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."

Jerry Garcia, American Musician

Death, Life, Drugs

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"Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted."

"Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted."

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

Death, Family, Father

30

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."

"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."

Indira Gandhi, Indian Statesman

Death, Thought, Fear, Action

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"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

Death, Questions, Songs, Weather

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"The death of the forest is the end of our life."

"The death of the forest is the end of our life."

Dorothy Stang, American Clergyman

Death, Life, End

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"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."

"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain."

John Elway, American Athlete

Death, Rain, Weather

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"At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it."

"At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it."

Oliver Reed, English Actor

Death, Food, People, Right

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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Death, Faith, Life, Doubt

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"People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song."

"People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song."

Martin Gore, English Musician

Death, People, America, Favorite

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"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

Death, Life, Father, HusbDaughter

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"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere."

"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere."

Linda McCartney, American Photographer

Death, Home, Mother, Hate

30

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman."

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman."

Holly Black, American Author

Death, Beauty, Acceptance, Peace

30

"Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas."

"Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Death, Equality, Absurdity, Fate

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"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."

"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."

Thomas Kyd, English Dramatist

Death, Life, Eyes, Public

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"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."

"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Death, Mother, Autobiography, Events

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"The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son."

"The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son."

Bobby Rush, American Politician

30

"The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death."

"The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death."

Phil Bredesen, American Politician

Death, Life, People, Consequences

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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

30

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."

Peter DeFazio, American Politician

Death, Men, War, Women

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"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

Edward Young, English Poet

Death, Angels, Grave

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"There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place."

"There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place."

Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete

Death, Funny, Being

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"Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky."

"Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky."

Solon, Greek Statesman

30

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Jean Paul, German Author

Death, Darkness, Dying, Evening

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"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

David Mamet, American Dramatist

Death, Peace, Public, Question

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"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Death, Revenge, Nature, Darkness

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"The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against."

"The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against."

Suzanne Fields, American Columnist

Death, Faith, Church, Debt

30

"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."

"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."

William Alexander, American Artist

30

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death."

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Death, Hope, Eyes

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"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable."

"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable."

Tony Visconti, American Musician

Death, Music, Buying, Culture

30

"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."

"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

Death, Indifference

29

"I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."

"I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American Musician

29

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

Death, Power, Family, Delight

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