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Death Quotes

"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

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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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"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them."

"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

Death, War, Life, Corporate

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"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

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"In every death, a busy world comes to an end."

"In every death, a busy world comes to an end."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Death, End, World

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"Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks."

"Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Death, Experience, People, Tears

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"What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?"

"What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?"

James Cameron, American Director

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"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

Death, Love, Treatment

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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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"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

Horace, Roman Poet

Death, Kings, Man, Poor

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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."

"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."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Death, Love, Pain, Life

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"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."

"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."

Thomas Wolfe, American Novelist

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"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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"People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear."

"People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear."

Dan Farmer, American Scientist

Death, People, Fear, Computer

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"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."

"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."

Ian Fleming, British Author

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"A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given."

"A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Chance, Hope, Afterlife

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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."

"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

John Milton, English Poet

Death, Eternity, Key

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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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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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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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"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!"

"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!"

Luigi Pirandello, Italian Playwright

Death, Character, Luck, Man

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"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

Harry A. Blackmun, American Judge

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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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"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."

"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."

Tryon Edwards, American Theologian

Death, Grave, Heaven, May

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"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."

"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Death, People, Act, Being

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"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."

"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Death, Connection

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"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."

"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

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"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

Death, Dying, Earth, Language

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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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"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."

"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."

Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher

Death, Hope, Freedom

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"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Delay, Punishment

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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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"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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"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return."

"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return."

Otto Frank, German Celebrity

Death, Wife, Children

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"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

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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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"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

Death, Soul, Gentleman

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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly."

"On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Death, Man, Sun

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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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"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old."

"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

Death, Old, Years

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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Death, Day, Rest, Sleep

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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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"Blood and death. That moves me."

"Blood and death. That moves me."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

Death, Guests, May

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