967 private quotes tagged death

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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”— Epicurus
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“Death is the best invention of life.”— Steve Jobs
Source:http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/7b7ae3-steve-jobs-inter...
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”— Edgar Allan Poe
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“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”— Buddha
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“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”— Buddha
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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”— Lao Tzu
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”— Edgar Allan Poe
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”— Epicurus
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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”— Mark Twain
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“Not even old age knows how to love death.”— Sophocles
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“If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.”— Paul Walker
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“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”— Jack Kevorkian
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“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”— Thomas Paine
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“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”— Tennessee Williams
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“We the unwilling.
Led by the unqualified.
To kill the unfortunate.
Die for the ungrateful.”— GI in Vietnam War
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“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”— Anne Boleyn
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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”— Nelson Mandela