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Death Quotes
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
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"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
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"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."
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"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."
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"Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks."
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
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"No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet."
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction."
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"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
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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 death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."
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"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves."
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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."
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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
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"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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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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"When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction."
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
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"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."
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"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."
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