- Punch
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Peaceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
- Fear
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
- Comforted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blood and death. That moves me.
- Farthest
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- Nov 07, 2020