Quotes with death-beds

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  • Bodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Iris Murdoch But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Captain Beefheart But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • William Shakespeare But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Russell Lowell But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • John Dewey Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • John Wayne Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Earl Wilson Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Seneca Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Confucius Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Margaret Mitchell Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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