Quotes with death-bed

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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Stalin A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Source: Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Virginia Woolf Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Anna Akhmatova All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    Source: On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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