- Love
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
- Unique
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
- Survival
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- Nov 07, 2020