967 private quotes tagged death

“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” — Miyamoto Musashi

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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” — Robert Bolt

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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.” — A. N. Wilson

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“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.” — Hannah Arendt

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“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” — David Gerrold

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“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” — W.C. Fields

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“If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” — Scott Caan

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“I don't want to hear about my death.” — Oriana Fallaci

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“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.” — Robert Browning

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” — Erik H. Erikson

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“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?” — W.C. Fields

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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” — Ben Kingsley

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.” — Alexei Sayle

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“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” — Joseph Hall

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“Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.” — Ron Paul

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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James Dean

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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” — Alice Walker

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“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?” — Chanakya

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