Quotes with death-like

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  • Jim Jones Death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life
    Jim Jones
    American cult leader (1931 - 1978)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Woody Allen Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist.
    My Apology
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carter Burwell Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Aeschylus Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Joaquin Miller Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
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  • Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Doug Horton Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • George Bernard Shaw Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
    but we are inside on the way out,
    not outside on the way in.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robin Williams Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Bayard Taylor Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Norman Cousins Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
    Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Woody Allen Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Thomas Merton Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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