967 private quotes tagged death

“And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.” — Bodhidharma

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“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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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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“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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“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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“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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

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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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“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.” — Jonathan Swift

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

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“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” — Tecumseh

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

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“All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.” — Katie Price

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“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.” — Jerry Garcia

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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J. K. Rowling

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

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“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” — Angus Young

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“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” — Jim Morrison

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“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.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.” — Gustave Flaubert

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