Quotes with death-bed

Quotes 741 till 760 of 811.

  • Susan Sontag What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Blake What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller What shall he fear that does not fear death.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Shakespeare When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
    Source: Julius Caesar II, ii, 30-31
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Bridges When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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  • Brendan Behan When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Tschumi When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Bill Moseley When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bessie Smith When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
    Bessie Smith
     
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • W. C. Fields When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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