Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 1041 till 1059 of 1059.

  • Jim Morrison A game is a closed field, a ring of death with sex at the centre, and performing is the only game I've got.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • J. P. Donleavy But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • William Shakespeare By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Basil Hume Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Elias Canetti He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Denis Diderot People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Bhagavad Gita There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • J. P. Donleavy When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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