967 private quotes tagged death

“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” — Edvard Munch

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“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.” — Yitzhak Rabin

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“Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.” — Layne Staley

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow

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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.” — Jean Cocteau

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“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.” — Paul Simon

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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” — Joseph Addison

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“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” — Jean Paul

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.” — Imran Khan

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“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” — Kurt Cobain

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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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“Death is the final wake-up call.” — Douglas Horton

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“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Pope Benedict XVI

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“And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.” — Bodhidharma

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” — Henry Miller

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