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Death Quotes


"When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway."


"I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row."


"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death."


"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."


"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."



"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."



"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans."


"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."


"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging."


"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."


"You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused."



"The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes."


"There is not a single person I have met in my lifetime who is comfortable talking about death. It's the biggest downside to our youth - centric culture. Death is a bummer, so let's not talk about it. Let's hide it away and hope it never strikes close to home."



"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."



"He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft. "Because they're dead, love. They're all dead."


"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."



"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."


"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."


"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."


"With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral."


"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."


"With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren."
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