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Death Quotes

"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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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Death, Experience, Life, Eternity

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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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"There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction."

"There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction."

John Cory, American Politician

Death, War, Morality, Destruction

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"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."

"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Survival, Body, Consciousness

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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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"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."

"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."

Polly Toynbee, English Journalist

Death, Care, Dying

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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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"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Experience, Relatives, State

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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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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

John Keats, English Poet

Death, Possession

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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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"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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"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Death, Fear, Compromise, Duty

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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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"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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"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Idea, Man, Right

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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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"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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"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Immortality - a fate worse than death."

"Immortality - a fate worse than death."

Edgar A. Shoaff, American Cartoonist

Death, Fate, Immortality

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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 death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

William Penn, English Leader

Death, Time, Eternity

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"Death is the final wake-up call."

"Death is the final wake-up call."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"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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"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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"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."

"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."

Ivan Turgenev, Russian Novelist

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"I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."

"I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."

George Ryan, American Politician

Death, Error, Support

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"DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him."

"DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Death, Release, Judgment, Morality

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"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

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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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"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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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne, British Poet

Death, Man, Mankind

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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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"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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"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Death, Life, Eternity, Man

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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 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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"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley."

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Death, Father, Friends, Questions

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"Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter."

"Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter."

Julie Benz, American Actress

Death, People, Bed, Cause

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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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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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

18

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

Andy Rooney, American Journalist

18

"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

18

"Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself."

"Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself."

Eugene Ormandy, American Musician

18

"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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"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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