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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
– Joseph Addison
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Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it.
– Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory - death.
– William Alexander
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I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen
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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
– Woody Allen
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
– Woody Allen
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Marriage is the death of hope.
– Woody Allen
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife-a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
– Woody Allen
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
– Woody Allen
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I answer the heroic question Death, where is they sting? with It is here in my heart and mind and memories.
– Maya Angelou
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Now among all passions inflicted from without, death holds the first place, just as sexual concupiscences are chief among internal passions. Consequently, when a man conquers death and things directed to death, his is a most perfect victory.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
– Thomas Arnold
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I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.
– Beatrice Arthur
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
– Isaac Asimov
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
– Dan Aykroyd
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We in Holland know the word means a mild death, a dignified death. And therefore we use it.
– Pieter V. Admiraal
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Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.
– David Allman
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
– Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
– John Andre
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
– Michel Aoun
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And to meet whom did Franklin D Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.
– Lauren Bacall
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
– Enid Bagnold
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I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
– Tom Baker
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Sometimes when I watch very famous people on television, they make me long for death! These utterly pitiful little exhibitionists who don't nourish anyone but just talk very loudly are now actually guiding us and telling us what to think. I think, 'Well, one day I'll be dead and then I'll get away from you.'
– Tom Baker
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
– George P. Baker
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
– James A. Baldwin
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I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
– Stephen Baldwin
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
– Georges Bataille
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
– Francis Beaumont
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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
– Jim Bishop
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The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.
– Jim Bishop
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How shocking must thy summons be, O Death! To him that is at ease in his possessions: Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come!
– Robert Blair
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'Tis long since Death had the majority.
– Robert Blair
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
– William Blake
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
– Erma Bombeck
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
– George Borrow
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
– Jeremy Brett
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
– Mel Brooks
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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
– David Brooks
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This is called the land of the free and the home of the brave; it is called the asylum of the oppressed, and some have been foolish enough to call it the Cradle of Liberty. If it is the Cradle of Liberty, they have rocked the child to death.
– William Wells Brown
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Death is the cure for all diseases.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
– Sir Thomas Browne
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
– William C. Bryant
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
– Buddha
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
– Buddha
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
– Leo Buscaglia
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
– Lord Byron
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
– Michelangelo
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It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
– Brian Baird
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They are both great fans and they have been for years and years. It is a bit more of a social event there and here it is almost kind of like life and death. The fans are really really into it and terribly disappointed when you lose. They are very compassionate about the team and they are very knowledgeable fans here.
– Dusty Baker
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According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to the ministry of angels, and those other miraculous means which they say God useth to manifest the doctrine and history of Christ's passion unto such, who, living in the places of the world where the outward preaching of the Gospel is unknown, have well improved the first and common grace.
– Robert Barclay
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This most certain doctrine being then received, that there is an evangelical and saving Light and grace in all, the universality of the love and mercy of God towards mankind, both in the death of his beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the manifestation of the Light in the heart, is established and confirmed, against all the objections of such as deny it.
– Robert Barclay
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At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.
– Clive Barker
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I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.
– Clive Barker
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The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
– Clive Barnes
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
– Cecil Beaton
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Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
– Bob Beauprez
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Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
– Betty Bender
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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.
– Pope Benedict XVI
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It seems to us an extraordinarily incongruous thing that we have a sport in which two people are literally paid to get into a ring and try to beat one another to death, or at least beat them into a state of senselessness which will then leave them permanently brain-damaged.
– Joseph F. Boyle
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I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
– Benjamin Bratt
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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
– William J. Brennan, Jr.
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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
– Hermann Broch
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There are moments when we in the British press can show extraordinary sensitivity; these moments usually coincide with the death of a proprietor, or a proprietor's wife.
– Craig Brown
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
– Julie Burchill
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
– Julius Caesar
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I'm pissed that TBS changed their network and did not renew us. I hope they die a miserable burning death with their new program format because I'm pissed. Now again, I don't want TBS to burn to the ground literally. I just want their ratings to go down in smoldering flames. I'm just pissed that my show got jacked.
– Dean Cain
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
– Albert Camus
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
– Albert Camus
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
– George Carlin
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Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year.
– Tucker Carlson
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Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles.
– Tucker Carlson
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There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric.
– Tucker Carlson
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To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
– Tucker Carlson
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
– Thomas Carlyle
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This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
– Angela Carter
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
– Fidel Castro
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
– Graham Chapman
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
– Alexander Chase
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I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
– Cher
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Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Life is nothing; death, everything. Yet there is nothing which is death, independent of life. It is precisely this absence of autonomous, distinct reality which makes death universal; it has no realm of its own, it is omnipresent, like everything which lacks identity, limit, and bearing: an indecent infinitude.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
– Emile M. Cioran
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A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
– Ramsey Clark
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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
– Alan Clark
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
– Montgomery Clift
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Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
– Glenn Close
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If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
– Kurt Cobain
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