Quotes with death-bed

  • By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

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  • William Shakespeare What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A useless life is an early death.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Joel Rosenberg Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Steve Jobs Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Beckett Birth was the death of him.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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