967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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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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“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?” — Willie Aames

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“I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.” — Thomas Mann

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“I'm more afraid of marriage than death.” — Shakira

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“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.” — Daniel Boone

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“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.” — Gus Van Sant

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“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.” — Dick Gregory

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“I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.” — Tim Kaine

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“The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” — Jack Lemon

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“Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.” — Frederick Buechner

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