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- Nov 07, 2020
Death Quotes
Death shows up in conversation more than we admit.
These quotes treat death as a subject that surfaces everywhere - casual bar conversation about life's biggest questions, a wry comparison between an unfulfilling job and a kind of professional death, and culture as the space where death, love, and birth all get processed together. See Death And Taxes Quotes for more.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the cure for all diseases.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020