Quotes with death--or

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Enid Bagnold As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Doug Horton As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Beeban Kidron At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Milan Kundera At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
    Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • William Shakespeare Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
    Henry VI 1, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Wilson Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Francis Picabia Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • John Arbuthnot Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • T. S. Eliot Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Omar Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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