Quotes with death-bed

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  • Miguel de Cervantes There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Brad Meltzer There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jim Crace There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Charles Mackay There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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  • Bill Hicks There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Fran Lebowitz There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Butler There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George R. R. Martin There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today."
    Source: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1: A Game of Thrones (1996)
    George R. R. Martin
    American writer and television producer (1948 - )
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  • Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bill Engvall There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
    Source: Now Thats Awesome
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
    Bruno Schulz
     
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Jackson They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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