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Death Quotes

"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."

"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic

Death, Authority

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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Death, Time, Congress, Difference

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"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old."

"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

Death, Old, Years

16

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

Dean Smith, American Athlete

Death, Life, Problems

16

"Grumbling is the death of love."

"Grumbling is the death of love."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

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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."

"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."

John Keats, English Poet

Death, Possession

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley."

Joel Rosenberg, American Author

Death, Son, Fear, Evil

15

"I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad."

"I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad."

Claire Forlani, English Actress

Death, Daughter, Dying, Play

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"Birth was the death of him."

"Birth was the death of him."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

15

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

15

"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."

"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Connection

15

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Immortality - a fate worse than death."

"Immortality - a fate worse than death."

Edgar A. Shoaff, American Cartoonist

Death, Fate, Immortality

15

"It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death."

"It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death."

Christy Turlington, American Model

Death, Education, Succeed, Tools

15

"I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death."

"I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death."

Casey Affleck, American Actor

Death, Fish, Friends

15

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."

Paula Cole, American Musician

15

"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

15

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

Thomas Browne, British Scientist

Death, Cure, Labor

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"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart."

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart."

Tecumseh, American Leader

Death, Life, Heart, Fear

14

"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."

"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

Death, War, Enemies, states

14

"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."

"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."

Taylor Caldwell, American Author

Death, People, Dying

14

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart."

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Death, Heart, Affection, Echo

14

"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."

"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

Death, Life, Friend, Girlfriend

14

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

Thomas Browne, British Scientist

Death, Power, Life

14

"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio."

"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio."

John Tesh, American Musician

Death, Parents, Physics

14

"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

Death, God, Humanity

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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

14

"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."

"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."

Jessica Mitford, American Journalist

Death, Dying, Public

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"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

William Penn, English Leader

Death, Time, Eternity

14

"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."

"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."

Martin Short, American Actor

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"Living well is dying well."

"Living well is dying well."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Death, Life, Living, Reflection

14

"The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants."

"The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Death, Church, Abuse, Exploitation

14

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

Horace, Roman Poet

Death, Kings, Man, Poor

14

"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."

"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

14

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

Henry Fielding, English Novelist

14

"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."

"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Death, Life, Idea, Eternity

14

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

14

"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."

"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."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

14

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"

"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"

Robert McNamara, American Public Servant

Death, Women, Thought, Children

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"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."

"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."

James Stephens, Irish Poet

Death, Nothing, Perfection

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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

Death, People, Progress, Humanity

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"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."

Ernestine L. Rose, Polish Feminist

Death, Life, Agitation

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"When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction."

"When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction."

Jonathan Davis, American Musician

Death, Music, Destruction, Flowers

13

"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."

"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Death, Society, Help

13

"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer

Death, Life, Positive, Act

13

"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."

"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day."

Nick Mancuso, Italian Actor

Death, Sex, Day, Reality

13

"To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed."

"To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed."

Jim Jones, American Criminal

13

"It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one."

"It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

13

"Death is the final wake-up call."

"Death is the final wake-up call."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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