967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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

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“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.” — Isabel Allende

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

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

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

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