Quotes with death

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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Norman Tebbit It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Woody Allen It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry Fielding It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Napoleon It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bernhard Langer It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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