Quotes 261 till 280 of 811.
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
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Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
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Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 129 -
He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
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He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just,
Shows of the resurrection little trust.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2. -
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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