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Death Quotes

"Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death."

"Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death."

Lee Iacocca, American Businessman

Death, People, Language, Respect

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"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."

"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."

Kit Bond, American Politician

Death, Economy, Tax, Now

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"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Death, Future, Revolution, Past

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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Death, Faith, Life, Doubt

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"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer

Death, Life, Work, Morality

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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

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"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations."

"The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations."

Kit Bond, American Politician

Death, Family, Dream, Wealth

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"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Death, Life, Faith, Truth

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"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."

"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."

Charles Montesquieu, French Philosopher

Death, Man, Weeping

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"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning."

"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning."

Huey Newton, American Activist

Death, Fear, Meaning

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"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."

"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."

Anderson Cooper, American Journalist

Death, Kiss, People, Being

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"There is nothing glamorous about death."

"There is nothing glamorous about death."

Roger Moore, English Actor

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"Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death."

"Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death."

Henry Reed, English Writer

Death, Time, Awareness, Space

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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."

"There is something about poverty that smells like death."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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"Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives."

"Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives."

Christy Turlington, American Model

Death, Fear, Act

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"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

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"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."

"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Death, People, Day, Defeat

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Death, Living, Praise

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"Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats."

"Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats."

Henry Thomas, American Actor

Death, Family, Mail, Tourists

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"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

Death, Fear, Past, Present

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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

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"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Death, Duty, Man, Sleep

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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."

"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."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American Poet

Death, Absurdity

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"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."

"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."

Angelina Jolie, American Actress

Death, Life, Thought, Now

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"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs."

"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs."

Isaiah Berlin, Russian Philosopher

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"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."

"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Death, Measure, Merit, Waiting

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"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."

Peter DeFazio, American Politician

Death, Men, War, Women

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"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable."

"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable."

Theodore Parker, American Theologian

Death, Soul, Brother, Body

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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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"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."

Edward Young, English Poet

Death, Angels, Grave

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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."

"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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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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"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death."

"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death."

Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher

Death, Hope, Contradiction, Living

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"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Death, Life, Balance, Mind

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"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death."

"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death."

Henry Miller, American Author

Death, History, Truth, Singing

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"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Death, Life, Answers, Questions

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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Death, Life, Thought, Values

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"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

"Since 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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"The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow."

"The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow."

John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman

Death, Present, Sorrow

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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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"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."

"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."

Taylor Caldwell, American Author

Death, Survival, Personality

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"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Death, Revenge, Nature, Darkness

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"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."

"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Death, Sex, Pornography

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"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Death, Life, Men

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"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

Edie Brickell, American Musician

Death, Energy, Play, Songs

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"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."

"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."

Theodor Reik, American Psychologist

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"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Death, Mystery, Loss, Space

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"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"

"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Truth, Future, Power, Wisdom

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