Quotes with death-like

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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Beck We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Don DeLillo We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
    White Noise (2011) 32
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Mark Twain We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bobby Jindal We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Camille Paglia We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Burnie Burns We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Byron Howard We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carrie Fisher We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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