Quotes with death--or

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  • Ernest Hemingway A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Charles Brower A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Stalin A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Virginia Woolf Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Anna Akhmatova All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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