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"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"

"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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

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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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"You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death."

"You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death."

Dick Durbin, American Politician

Death, Purpose, Effort, Talk

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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

29

"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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"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

Lena Horne, American Actress

29

"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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"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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"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."

"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Death, Day, Hell, Night

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"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

Edie Brickell, American Musician

Death, Energy, Play, Songs

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"Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable."

"Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable."

Graham Chapman, British Comedian

28

"Death is a very important part of life."

"Death is a very important part of life."

GG Allin, American Musician

28

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die."

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die."

Guru Nanak, Indian Philosopher

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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

28

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

28

"I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians."

"I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians."

Patton Oswalt, American Comedian

Death, Comedians

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"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."

"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."

Joe Moore, American Celebrity

Death, Love, Money, Anxiety

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"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery."

"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

Death, Father, Pain, Sadness

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"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Death, Life, Faith, Truth

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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

28

"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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"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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"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood."

"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Death, Brother, Favorite

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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

28

"Living well is dying well."

"Living well is dying well."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Death, Life, Living, Reflection

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"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

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"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."

"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."

"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."

Ivan Illich, American Sociologist

28

"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."

"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Death, Adventure

27

"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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"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."

"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."

Harriet Tubman, American Activist

Death, Liberty, Mind, Right

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"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."

"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

27

"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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"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."

"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"Death, only, renders hope futile."

"Death, only, renders hope futile."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, American Writer

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"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

Death, Genius, Monuments, Poets

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"I wait for death and journalists."

"I wait for death and journalists."

Jeanne Calment, French Celebrity

27

"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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"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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"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."

"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Death, Life, Bed, Lying

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"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

27

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Death, Birthday, Fear, Eternity

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"I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death."

"I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death."

Walter Reisch, Austrian Scientist

Death, Hate, Sleep

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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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