Famous Quotes: Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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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.
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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