- Pain
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our life is made by the death of others.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020