967 private quotes tagged death

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.” — Ray Kurzweil

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“So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.” — Theresa May

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“Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.” — Paul Theroux

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“I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.” — Elton John

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“I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.” — Jesse Jackson

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“If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.” — George Saunders

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“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.” — A. N. Wilson

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“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.” — Muqtada al Sadr

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“Death is feared as birth is forgotten.” — Douglas Horton

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“Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.” — Orlando Bloom

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“I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.” — Mercedes McCambridge

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“If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.” — Maya Lin

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“In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.” — Tom Robbins

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“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.” — Annie Lennox

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“The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.” — Lucius Accius

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“When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“I looked Death right in the face.” — Travis Barker

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“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.” — Dennis Rodman

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“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.” — Thomas Francis Meagher

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“Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.” — A. N. Wilson

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“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.” — A. N. Wilson

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