967 private quotes tagged death

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.” — Horace Mann

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

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

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“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.” — Jon Stewart

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

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“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.” — Edna Ferber

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

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“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.” — Tom Araya

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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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“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.” — Charlotte Bronte

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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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“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

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“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.” — Kevin Spacey

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

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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” — Havelock Ellis

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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.” — Germaine Greer

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“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” — Tryon Edwards

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“Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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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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