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Death Quotes


"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death."


"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."


"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."


"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."


"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."


"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore."


"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."


"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."


"If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death."


"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate."


"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."


"If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one."


"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."


"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."


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


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


"We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation."



"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."


"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."


"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."


"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."


"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."


"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."


"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us."
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