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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
– Mario Puzo
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
– Pythagoras
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It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
– Brian Perkins
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
– Dennis Quaid
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand
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But that means that the Eucharist is far more than just a meal; it has cost a death to provide it, and the majesty of death is present in it. Whenever we hold it, we should be filled with reverence in the face of this mystery, with awe in the face of this mysterious death the becomes a present reality in our midst.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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The Christian feast, the Eucharist, plumbs the very depths of death. It is not just a matter of pious discourse and entertainment, of some kind of religious beautification, spreading a pious gloss on the world; it plumbs the very depths of existence, which it call death... what the tradition sums up in the sentence: The Eucharist is a sacrifice, the presentation of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the Cross.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.
– Tara Reid
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
– Joseph Ernest Renan
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
– Agnes Repplier
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
– Adrienne Rich
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The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
– Jef I. Richards
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'Father' meant to me provider... and I was working myself to death... but I wasn't physically home; I wasn't there every day.
– Lionel Richie
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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
– Jean Paul Richter
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
– Jean Paul Richter
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A nation is truly corrupt, when, after having, by degrees lost its character and liberty, it slides from democracy into aristocracy or monarchy; this is the death of the political body by decrepitude.
– Maximilien Robespierre
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.
– George Lincoln Rockwell
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
– J. K. Rowling
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
– John Ruskin
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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
– Rosalind Russell
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
– Marie Louise De La Ramee
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A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
– Dixy Lee Ray
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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
– Sogyal Rinpoche
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Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
– Edward Payson Rod
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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
– Joel Rosenberg
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
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The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
– Bobby L. Rush
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If the court sentences Saddam Hussein to death, the verdict will be carried out. But I would have no other legal choice but to make myself absent so my two deputies would take the decision they wish.
– Jalal Talabani
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My two partners in the presidency, the government, the House, all of them are for sentencing Saddam Hussein to death before the court will decide.
– Jalal Talabani
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
– Tecumseh
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
– Tecumseh
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
– Tecumseh
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
– Paul Theroux
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
– James Thurber
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
– Simon Travaglia
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
– Mark Twain
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
– Mark Twain
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
– Mark Twain
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Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
– Conway Twitty
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
– Edwin Way Teale
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It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
– Norman Tebbit
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Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
– Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
– Stevie Ray Vaughan
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I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.
– Conrad Veidt
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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
– Ben Vereen
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Death gives life its fullest reality.
– Anthony Dalla Villa
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Our life is made by the death of others.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
– Virgil
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
– Voltaire
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
– Voltaire
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If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
– Claude Vorilhon
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Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
– Claude Vorilhon
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
– Alice Walker
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
– Larry Wall
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
– Lew Wallace
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
– Roger Waters
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
– Roger Waters
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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
– John Wayne
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
– Edith Wharton
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The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
– Byron R. White
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
– Byron R. White
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The last three generations of our family, there hasn't been one natural death. There were eight of us children, born in the Ozark mountains. Today there only remain my mother, my sister and myself. The rest all died in various accidents. So you see my fate will get me sooner or later.
– Pearl White
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
– Walt Whitman
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
– Thornton Wilder
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
– Tennessee Williams
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There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.
– Edward O. Wilson
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My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
– Brian Wilson
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
– Robert Anton Wilson
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
– Thomas Wolfe
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
– Thomas Wolfe
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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
– James Woods
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
– Virginia Woolf
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
– Thomas Walker
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To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
– William H. Walton
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
– Wendy Wasserstein
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Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
– Franz Werfel
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If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
– Kanye West
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
– Kanye West
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That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.
– John Whitehead
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Death, the cliche assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more than others.
– Alden Whitman
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The stench of death massaged my skin; it took years to wash away.
– James Wilde
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My country, wounded to the heart, could I but flash along thy soul, electric power to rive apart, the thunder-clouds that round thee roll, and, by my burning words, uplift, thy life from out Death's icy drift, till the full splendors of our age, shone round thee for thy heritage.
– Jane Wilde
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Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly, on a pale and anxious crowd, through the court, and round the judges, thronging thickly, with prayers none dare to speak aloud. Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar- You can see them through the gloom- In pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are awaiting their death doom.
– Jane Wilde
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