Quotes with death

Quotes 641 till 660 of 682.

  • W. C. Fields When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • John Ruskin Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Julius Caesar Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected''.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anna Akhmatova Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Wit is the epitaph on the death of an emotion.
    Original: Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • James Lendall Basford Wrinkles are beauty's death lines.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron Yet what is death, so it is glorious? 't Is a sunset.
    Sardanapalus
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Gael Boardman You can't aim a duck to death.
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Vance Havner You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Erma Bombeck You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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