967 private quotes tagged death

“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.” — Marcia Wallace

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“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan

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“I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!” — Kirk Hammett

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“When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.” — Russell Baker

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“Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.” — Thomas Francis Meagher

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“Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.” — Edna Ferber

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“I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.” — Umberto Eco

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“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.” — Thornton Wilder

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“But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.” — Theodore Bikel

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“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” — Mariah Carey

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“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.” — John Cusack

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“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.” — William Goldman

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“Failure too is a form of death.” — Graham Greene

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“I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.” — Jo Brand

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“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.” — Douglas Horton

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“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

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“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.” — Robert Browning

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“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” — Alfred Nobel

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“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.” — Harvey Weinstein

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