967 private quotes tagged death

“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.” — Ovid

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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” — Tecumseh

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“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” — Ernst Moritz Arndt

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“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.” — John Cusack

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“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.” — Ron White

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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“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.” — Robert Bolt

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“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” — Miyamoto Musashi

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“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.” — Hannah Arendt

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“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” — David Gerrold

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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.” — A. N. Wilson

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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” — Juliette Binoche

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“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” — Oliver Reed

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“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” — W.C. Fields

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“If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” — Scott Caan

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“I don't want to hear about my death.” — Oriana Fallaci

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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” — Erik H. Erikson

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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” — Ben Kingsley

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“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?” — W.C. Fields

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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