Quotes with death-beds

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  • Brendan Gleeson The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ruth Gordon The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
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  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Meredith The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Frank Dane The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • George Orwell The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Bratt The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Will Rogers The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Mann The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Howard Nemerov The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Mark Twain The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
    Telegram naar Associated Press (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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