967 private quotes tagged death

“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.” — Stanislav Grof

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“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.” — Ani DiFranco

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“You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.” — Billy Corgan

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“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.” — David Hume

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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 not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.” — Billy Corgan

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“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.” — Layne Staley

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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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“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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“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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“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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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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“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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“People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.” — Denis Diderot

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

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“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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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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