Quotes with death-like

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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bob Dylan How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Shakespeare How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • William Shakespeare How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Brian Tracy How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • George Macdonald How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • George Eliot Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jonathan Swift Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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