967 private quotes tagged death

“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” — Kurt Cobain

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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” — Joseph Addison

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“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” — Jean Paul

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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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.” — Henry Miller

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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” — William Hazlitt

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin

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“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.” — Abu Bakr

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“Death's in the good-bye.” — Anne Sexton

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” — Jean Racine

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“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.” — Che Guevara

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“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.” — Paul Simon

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“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” — George Santayana

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“Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.” — Layne Staley

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“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.” — Mel Brooks

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“Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.” — E. M. Forster

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“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.” — Jack Nicholson

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