967 private quotes tagged death

“Give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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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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“A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.” — Imran Khan

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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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“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.” — Jesse Jackson

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

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow

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

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

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“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.” — Jean Cocteau

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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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“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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“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 death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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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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“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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“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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“Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.” — Alfred Adler

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“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.” — Angela Davis

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“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.” — Heinrich Heine

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“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.” — Eric Hoffer

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“An evil life is a kind of death.” — Ovid

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

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