Quotes with death-bed

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  • George Bernard Shaw Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barry Zito Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Graham Greene Failure too is a form of death...
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Martin Bormann Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Aeschylus For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Johnny Carson For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Epictetus For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bhagavad Gita For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Dylan For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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