Quotes with death-process

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  • Mary Stewart There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Betty Parsons There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • C. Everett Koop There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Brad Meltzer There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Mollison There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.10
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Jim Crace There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Charles Mackay There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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  • Bill Hicks There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Fran Lebowitz There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Butler There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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