Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1059.

  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Mark Twain Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Virginia Woolf Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Anna Akhmatova All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Abraham Lincoln All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abraham Lincoln All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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