Quotes with death-beds

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  • Josef Stalin One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Socrates Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Edward Young Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Ben Vereen Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Our life is made by the death of others.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Blaise Pascal Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Hazlitt Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brad Feld Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Havelock Ellis Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Horace Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Anais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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  • Roland Barthes Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Abraham Cowley Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • David Mamet Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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