Quotes with death--or

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  • Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dwight L. Moody light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • John Dryden Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Hilaire Belloc Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Robert Hayden Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • John Galsworthy Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • John Galsworthy Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
    Beyond (1917)
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Chase Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • William Ernest Henley Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ronald Laing Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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