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Death Quotes

"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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"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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"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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"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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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

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."

"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."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

Death, Possessions, Richness, Sickness

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"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."

"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."

Mercedes McCambridge, American Actress

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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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"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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"The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on."

"The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on."

George Sewell, English Actor

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"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane."

"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane."

Ron White, American Comedian

Death, states, Trying

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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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"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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"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death."

"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death."

Jacqueline Cochran, American Aviator

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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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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."

"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

Death, Power, Heresy, Reason

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"She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die. Death was for-for other people."

"She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die. Death was for-for other people."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Death, Fear, Desire, Truth

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"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."

"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."

Suzanne Fields, American Columnist

Death, Life, Technology, Debate

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"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Death, War, Hell, Nation

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"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

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"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."

Anne Frank, German Writer

Death, People, Heart, Confusion

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"Grumbling is the death of love."

"Grumbling is the death of love."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

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"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves."

"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

Death, Country, Man

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"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."

"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Death, Life, Will, Saudiarabian

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"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Death, Men, Courage, Thoughts

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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 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

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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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"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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"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor."

"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor."

David Carradine, American Actor

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"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."

"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."

Rollo May, American Psychologist

Death, Creativity, Being, Childhood

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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

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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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"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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"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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"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."

"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."

John Ralston Saul, Canadian Author

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"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

G. Gordon Liddy, American Entertainer

Death, Fear, Defeat

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"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."

"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."

Byron White, American Judge

Death, Light, Prejudice, Risk

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"I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death."

"I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death."

Mike Epps, American Comedian

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"Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death."

"Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death."

Desmond Morris, English Scientist

Death, Life, Visit

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"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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"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."

"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."

Andrew Greeley, American Clergyman

Death, Life, Belief, Christianity

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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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"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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