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Death Quotes

"Greetings and death to our enemies."

"Greetings and death to our enemies."

Dan Aykroyd, Canadian Comedian

Death, Enemies, Greetings

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"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

John Green, American Author

Death, Hope, Faith, Afterlife

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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

Edvard Munch, Norwegian Artist

Death, Life, Angels, Disease

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"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."

"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."

Angela Davis, American Activist

Death, America, Slavery

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"Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all."

"Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all."

David Carradine, American Actor

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"The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death."

"The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death."

Jonathan Davis, American Musician

Death, Kids, Songs, Want

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"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing."

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing."

Bret Harte, American Author

Death, Possibility, Existence, Man

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"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton, American Journalist

Death, Time, God, People

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"They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death."

"They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

Death, Life, Time, Being

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"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."

"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."

Johnny Cash, American Musician

Death, Love, Father, Man

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"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world."

"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world."

Roger Waters, British Musician

Death, Blind, Body, Indifference

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"Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event."

"Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event."

Mike Ferguson, American Politician

Death, Washington

6

"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."

"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."

Ken Calvert, American Politician

Death, Harm, Measure, Woman

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"Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country."

"Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country."

Robert Hewison, British Historian

Death, Education, Truth, Growth

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"For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it."

"For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it."

Debi Mazar, American Actress

Death, Life, People, Being

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"No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."

"No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."

Martha Beck, American Author

Death, Life, Self

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"Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death."

"Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death."

Sarah Vowell, American Author

Death, People, Talk

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"As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer."

"As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer."

Tom Araya, American Musician

Death, People, Killing, Mind

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"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral."

"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral."

Jon Kyl, American Politician

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"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

Mary Wesley, British Novelist

Death, Being, Children, Learning

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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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"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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"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."

"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."

Howard Stern, American Entertainer

Death, Being, Thinking

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"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

Death, Liberty, May

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"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."

"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."

Leo Burnett, American Businessman

Death, People, Advertising, Misleading

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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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"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

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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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"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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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"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

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"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

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"A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side."

"A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Death, Calamity, Leading, Man

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"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

Horace, Roman Poet

Death, Time, Law

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"What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death."

"What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death."

Otilia De Koster, Belgian Sculptor

Death, Fear, Being, Evil

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"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."

"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Body, Consciousness

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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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"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, German Soldier

Death, Life, Work, Music

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"Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down."

"Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down."

Michael Schiavo, American Celebrity

Death, Family, Home, Living

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"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death."

"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death."

Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer

Death, Military, Murder, President

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"We do not celebrate the death of our enemies."

"We do not celebrate the death of our enemies."

Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman

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"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

Death, Fear, Past, Present

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"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."

"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."

Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander Author

Death, Journey, Order, Newzealander

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"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

Edward Young, English Poet

Death, Angels, Grave

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"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."

"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."

Rex Hunt, Australian Entertainer

Death, People, Fish, Fishing

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"We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song."

"We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song."

George Lincoln Rockwell, American Activist

Death, Victory, Fight, Hell

6

"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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"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

Death, Fear, End, Want

6

"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

6

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."

Mac Thornberry, American Politician

Death, Family, Opportunity, Children

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