Quotes with death-beds

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  • Ernest Hemingway All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Richard Dawkins Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • John Fowles An answer is always a form of death.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Ovid An evil life is a kind of death.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bodhidharma And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Bob Dylan And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Barnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Betty Bender Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
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  • Bruce Dickinson Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • John Keats Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Blake Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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