967 private quotes tagged death

“Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I am against the death penalty.” — Andrew Cuomo

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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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“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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“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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“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.” — Stokely Carmichael

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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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“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.” — Wilson Mizner

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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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“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.” — Stanislav Grof

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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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“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” — George Whitefield

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

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“Death was like love, a romantic escape.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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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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