Quotes with death-bed

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  • John Banville Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Burns Don't stay in bed....unless you can make money in bed.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Source: Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ovid Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Georges Bataille Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Samuel M. Shoemaker Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.
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  • Ayn Rand Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
    Source: The Objectivist februari 1971
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bobby Darin Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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