Quotes with death-beds

Quotes 421 till 440 of 688.

  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
    A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Koestler Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • William Cobbett Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
    After first test of the atomic bomb
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • C. D. Andrews O can't you see, brother - Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
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  • Anne Boleyn O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • Walter Savage Landor O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bruce Sterling Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
    in the Long Now talk The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole (2004)
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aeschylus Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Rupert Brooke Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Walt Whitman Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Caity Lotz On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Woody Allen On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Paracelsus Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Oscar Wilde Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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