Quotes with death--or

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  • Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Gary Mark Gilmore Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Seneca Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bell Hooks Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Michael Ondaatje Death means you are in the third person.
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    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Stevie Smith Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Hannah Arendt Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • J. Masefield Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die!
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  • Thomas Wolfe Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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