- Happiness
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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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- Serious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
- Brokenhearted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020