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Death Quotes

"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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"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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"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Death, Living, Order

43

"Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead."

"Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead."

Giacomo Casanova, Italian Celebrity

Death, Lie, Doubt

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"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

William Lloyd Garrison, American Journalist

Death, Agreement, Hell

43

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."

Douglas MacArthur, American Soldier

Death, Time, Eye, Old

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"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."

"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."

Ellis Peters, British Author

Death, Cowards, Expectation, Heroes

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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

43

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

Ani DiFranco, American Musician

43

"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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"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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"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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"I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative."

"I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

Death, Thought, Character

43

"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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"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

43

"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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"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

43

"Living well is dying well."

"Living well is dying well."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Death, Life, Living, Reflection

43

"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

43

"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

43

"Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain."

"Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

43

"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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"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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"My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death."

"My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death."

Eliza Dushku, American Actress

Death, Love, Mom, Liberal

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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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"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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"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."

"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."

Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Writer

Death, Life, Living, Priorities

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"Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful."

"Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

Death, Life, Mystery

42

"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

42

"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

42

"My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence."

"My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence."

Jai Rodriguez, American Actor

Death, Mother, Thought, Being

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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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"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."

"I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Death, Life, Pain

42

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Francis Beaumont, English Playwright

Death, Love, Fear, Man

42

"I wait for death and journalists."

"I wait for death and journalists."

Jeanne Calment, French Celebrity

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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

42

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation."

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation."

Edwin Way Teale, American Naturalist

Death, Nature, Destruction

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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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"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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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."

"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."

William J. Brennan, American Judge

Death, Purpose, Pain, Punishment

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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

42

"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

Timothy Radcliffe, English Clergyman

Death, God, Humanity

42

"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

42

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"

Chanakya, Indian Politician

Death, Soul, Control, Body

42

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."

James Shirley, English Dramatist

Death, Blood, Fate, Kings

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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

42

"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."

"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."

Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman

Death, End, Now

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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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