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Death Quotes


"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."


"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."


"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."


"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."


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


"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."


"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."


"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."


"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."


"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."


"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."


"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."


"As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death."


"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."


"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."


"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."


"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed."


"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally."


"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."


"Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax."


"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."


"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."


"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit."


"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."


"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."


"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."


"We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot."


"I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority."


"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."


"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."


"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
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