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Death Quotes

"Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death."

"Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

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"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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"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

G. Gordon Liddy, American Entertainer

Death, Fear, Defeat

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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."

"There is something about poverty that smells like death."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Death, Day, Will, World

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"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."

"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

Death, Clothes, Grave, Monument

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"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

Death, Life, Fear

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"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

Death, People, Communism, Envy

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"Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."

"Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."

Glenn Close, American Actress

Death, Actor, Celebrity

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"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

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"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves."

"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

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"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."

"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

Death, Kiss, Character

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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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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Death, People, Humanity

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"Greetings and death to our enemies."

"Greetings and death to our enemies."

Dan Aykroyd, Canadian Comedian

Death, Enemies, Greetings

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"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."

"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."

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

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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."

"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

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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Death, War, Humanity, Pain

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"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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"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."

"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."

Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist

Death, Accomplishments, Interest, Sense

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"For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies."

"For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies."

Kevin Richardson, American Musician

Death, Cancer, Cause, Example

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"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."

Rosalind Russell, American Actress

Death, Life, Poor

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"Our life is made by the death of others."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate."

"Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate."

John Nelson Darby, English Clergyman

Death, Character, Christianity, First

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"All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay."

"All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

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"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

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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."

"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."

R. D. Laing, Scottish Psychologist

Death, Madness, May, Potential

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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death."

"Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death."

Geezer Butler, English Musician

Death, Sabbath, Songs

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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

Tryon Edwards, American Theologian

Death, Heaven, Parting

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"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

Death, Ending, Meaning

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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Life, Heaven

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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."

"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."

Derrick Jensen, American Author

Death, History, Civilization, Poison

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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Nicolas de Chamfort, French Writer

Death, Living, Sickness, Sleep

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"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."

"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."

Annie Lennox, Scottish Musician

Death, Dying, Living

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"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

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"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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"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

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"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

George Ryan, American Politician

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"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

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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Death, Decency, Will

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"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

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"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."

"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler, Hungarian Novelist

Death, Illusion, Nothing

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"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."

John Dryden, English Poet

Death, Fear, Nothing

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"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

Isabel Allende, Chilean Writer

Death, End, Freedom, Interest

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"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

Daniel Berrigan, American Clergyman

Death, Peace, War, Disgrace

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"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Inspirational, Power, Truth, Happiness

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"To awake from death is to die in peace."

"To awake from death is to die in peace."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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