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He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
– Pierre Corneille
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
– Abu Bakr
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
– Liu Xiaobo
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
– Angela Davis
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
– Keith Richards
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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
– Hesiod
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For tis not in mere death that men die most.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
– Susan Sontag
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
– Sophocles
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
– Thomas Mann
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For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
– Juliette Binoche
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Khalil Gibran
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
– Aeschylus
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
– George Santayana
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For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
– Michael Sheen
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
– Bjork
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
– Floyd Patterson
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
– A. N. Wilson
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
– Donald Cargill
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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
– Jessica Lange
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
– Jessamyn West
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Failure? Scared to death of it.
– Ryan Seacrest
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
– Andre Breton
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
– Barry Zito
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Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
– Bobby Darin
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Everybody is entertained to death.
– Brian Eno
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
– Deepak Chopra
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
– Tryon Edwards
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
– Gus Van Sant
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
– Buddha
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Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.
– Michael Collins
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Each instant of life is a step toward death.
– Pierre Corneille
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
– Stanislav Grof
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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
– Annie Lennox
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
– W. C. Fields
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
– Lena Horne
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Divorce is probably as painful as death.
– William Shatner
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
– Edvard Munch
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
– Samuel Johnson
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Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
– Mitt Romney
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Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
– Margot Kidder
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
– G. Gordon Liddy
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Death's in the good-bye.
– Anne Sexton
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
– Bela Lugosi
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
– Ivan Turgenev
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Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
– Guru Nanak
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Death was like love, a romantic escape.
– Brigitte Bardot
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Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
– Gus Van Sant
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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
– Ronald Blythe
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Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
– Joseph Stalin
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Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
– Bob Dylan
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Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
– Honore de Balzac
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
– J. K. Rowling
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
– Jim Morrison
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
– Dwight L. Moody
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
– Alexander Smith
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Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
– Barry Cornwall
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
– Walter Benjamin
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
– Abu Bakr
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
– John Milton
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
– Alice Thomas Ellis
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
– Alfred Adler
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
– Tennessee Williams
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
– Samuel Butler
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
– Georg Hermes
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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
– William Law
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
– Ovid
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Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
– Aeschylus
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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
– Douglas Horton
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
– Mason Cooley
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
– Carter Burwell
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Death is an absolute marvel.
– William Shatner
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
– Jeanne Moreau
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Death is a fearful thing.
– William Shakespeare
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Death is a very important part of life.
– GG Allin
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
– Herodotus
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
– Andy Rooney
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Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
– John Cusack
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Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
– Dennis Rodman
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Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
– John Dryden
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Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
– Jeanne Calment
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
– Jack Lemon
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
– Ray Kurzweil
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
– E. M. Forster
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
– Jerry Garcia
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
– Martin Scorsese
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Death by starvation is slow.
– Mary Austin
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Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
– Danny Aiello
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
– Oscar Wilde
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