967 private quotes tagged death

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” — Socrates

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“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” — Sun Tzu

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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” — Blaise Pascal

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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.” — Harriet Tubman

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“Marriage is the death of hope.” — Woody Allen

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“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.” — George Eliot

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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” — Lord Byron

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“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” — Woody Allen

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“Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.” — Aeschylus

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“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” — Blaise Pascal

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“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .” — Woody Allen

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“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.” — H. G. Wells

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” — Ambrose Bierce

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