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Death Quotes
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
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"That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death."
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"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."
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"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."
48
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
45
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
40
"Belief is the death of intelligence."
40
"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
38
"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."
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"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
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"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
37
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms."
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"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
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"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
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"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
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"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
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