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Death Quotes
"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
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"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
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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."
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"He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death."
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"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."
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"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
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"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
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"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
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"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor."
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"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."
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"I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death."
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"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
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"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."
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"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"
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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."
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"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore."
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"Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt."
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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."
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"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
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"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."
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"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."
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"Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly."
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"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
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"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
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"Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own."
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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
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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."
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