Quotes with death-beds

Quotes 661 till 680 of 688.

  • Gael Boardman You can't aim a duck to death.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Ambrose Bierce Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Basil Hume Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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