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Death Quotes

"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 grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy.."

"A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy.."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Death, Equality, Democracy, Life

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"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Death, Life, Love

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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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"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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"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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"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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"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."

"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."

Katherine Dunn, American Novelist

Death, Medical, Research

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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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"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."

"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."

Vance Havner, American Evangelist

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"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

Death, Absence, Court

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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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"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."

"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."

Jerry Garcia, American Musician

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"There is no more final end than death."

"There is no more final end than death."

John Thaw, British Actor

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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Death, Knowledge, Ignorance

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"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."

"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."

John Millington Synge, Irish Poet

Death, Complaint, Grief, Woman

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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

Death, Life, Loss

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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."

Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese Soldier

Death, Acceptance

12

"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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"To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law."

"To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law."

Byron White, American Judge

Death, Jury, Law

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"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."

"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."

Anderson Cooper, American Journalist

Death, Kiss, People, Being

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"His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad."

"His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad."

Red Skelton, American Comedian

Death, Time, First

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"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Death, Day, Walking

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"You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!"

"You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Spanish Poet

Death, Life, Fool, Nothing

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"Normality is death."

"Normality is death."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Death, Normality

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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."

"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Possibility, Body, Consciousness

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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Jean Anouilh, French Playwright

Death, Courage, Day, Man

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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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"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death."

"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death."

John Harvey Kellogg, American Businessman

Death, Mind, State, Unconscious

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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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"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Death, Life, Hope, 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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"After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?"

"After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?"

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

Death, Soul, Home, Living

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"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Musician

Death, Happiness, God, Opportunity

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"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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"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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"I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."

"I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American Musician

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"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."

"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Death, Church, Earth, Light

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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."

"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Survival, Behavior, Consciousness

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"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

Death, Being, Hearing

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"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide."

"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide."

Tecumseh, American Leader

Death, Day, Song

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"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Death, Life, Challenge, Ocean

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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

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"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."

Martin H. Fischer, American Physician

Death, Management, First, Reform

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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 like death. I'm a big fan of it."

"I like death. I'm a big fan of it."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

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"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires."

"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires."

Ed Markey, American Politician

Death, Knowledge, Cause, Causes

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