- Comforted
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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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- Dissolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
- Great Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
- Certainly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it wasn't for 'Kill Bill' I probably would have been back in New Zealand three months after I left, and if it wasn't for 'Death Proof' I don't think I would be pursuing an acting career right now.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
- Forgetfulness
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020