Quotes with death-beds

Quotes 581 till 600 of 688.

  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Dylan Thomas Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.
    The Professor (1857) ch. XXV
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Doug Horton To awake from death is to die in peace.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Al Goldstein To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • James F. Byrnes Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Jean Anouilh Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • John F. Boyes Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
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  • Edward Young Virtue alone has majesty in death.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Albert Einstein We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Graham Greene We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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