967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” — Tecumseh

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

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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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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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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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“My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.” — Brooke Shields

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

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“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.” — Heinrich Heine

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“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.” — Eric Hoffer

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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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