967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” — Dean Koontz

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“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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“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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“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.” — Jean Paul

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

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“Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.” — Bill Shankly

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

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

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

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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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“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.” — G. Gordon Liddy

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“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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