Quotes with mother-death

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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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  • Anna Freud It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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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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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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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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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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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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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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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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