967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.” — Peter Tosh

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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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“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.” — Jesse Jackson

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

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“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.” — Isabel Allende

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“All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.” — Katie Price

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“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.” — Jerry Garcia

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

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“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.” — David Byrne

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

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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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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” — William Hazlitt

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“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Brendan Behan

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin

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“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” — Jean Racine

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“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.” — Angela Davis

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“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.” — Henry Van Dyke

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