Quotes with death-like

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  • Oscar Wilde Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Hannah Arendt Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • J. Masefield Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die!
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  • Thomas Wolfe Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Virgil Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Billy Graham Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • William Shakespeare Death's a great disguiser.
    Measure for measure (1604)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anne Sexton Death's in the good-bye.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Billie Whitelaw Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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  • John Dryden Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Lord George Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aaron Hill Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bill Musselman Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
    Bill Musselman
    American basketball coach (1940 - 2000)
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  • William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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