- Life
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to hear about my death.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, death metal and extreme hardcore was the best music in the world to me. But as I got older, my palette changed and my thirst for melody and emotion just got bigger and bigger.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
- Eternally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020