967 private quotes tagged death

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” — Walt Whitman

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“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” — Carl Sagan

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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” — Albert Einstein

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“One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.” — Tennessee Williams

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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire

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“Belief is the death of intelligence.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” — Plato

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“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” — Ayn Rand

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“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen

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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.” — Earl Wilson

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“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.” — Morgan Freeman

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“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” — Tupac Shakur

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“Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.” — Bodhidharma

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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” — Woody Allen

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“I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.” — Samuel Butler

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“If we don't know life, how can we know death?” — Confucius

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“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” — Mark Twain

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“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.” — George Carlin

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