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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
– Manolo Blahnik
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
– Alfred Nobel
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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
– John Keats
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
– Martin Short
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I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
– Steven Seagal
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
– Christopher Hitchens
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
– Enya
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
– Jack Kevorkian
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.
– Harriet Tubman
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
– Ethel Waters
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
– Billy Corgan
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I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
– Willie Aames
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
– Charlotte Bronte
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I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
– Lena Dunham
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I don't want to hear about my death.
– Oriana Fallaci
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
– Robert Smith Surtees
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I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
– Helena Bonham Carter
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I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
– Jesse Ventura
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I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
– Tupac Shakur
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I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
– Hedy Lamarr
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I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
– Hedy Lamarr
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
– Mary Schmich
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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
– Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
– Mercedes McCambridge
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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
– Emilio Estevez
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
– Nancy Reagan
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I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
– Timothy Radcliffe
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I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
– Donny Osmond
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
– Julianna Baggott
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I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?
– Guru Nanak
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I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
– Liza Minnelli
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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
– Giacomo Casanova
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I am against the death penalty.
– Andrew Cuomo
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I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
– Pope John XXIII
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
– William Wycherley
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
– Alex Winter
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His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
– Red Skelton
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
– Mary Schmich
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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
– Georges Bernanos
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
– Fulton J. Sheen
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
– Thomas Paine
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
– Adam Clarke
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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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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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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 that gets born dies.
– Morrie Schwartz
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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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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'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 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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