Quotes with death-bed

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  • Marcus Valerius Martial You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Vance Havner You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Erma Bombeck You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • W. H. Auden You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Napoleon You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Christopher Marlowe You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Brian P. Cleary You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Rutherford You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Ernest Hemingway You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Jim Morrison A game is a closed field, a ring of death with sex at the centre, and performing is the only game I've got.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • J. P. Donleavy But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • William Shakespeare By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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