967 private quotes tagged death

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

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“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.” — Jon Stewart

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

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“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.” — Edna Ferber

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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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“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.” — Tom Araya

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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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“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.” — Charlotte Bronte

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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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“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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“It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.” — Kevin Spacey

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“Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” — Havelock Ellis

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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.” — Germaine Greer

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“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” — Tryon Edwards

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“Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.” — Carl Hiaasen

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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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“I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.” — Sting

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“When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.” — Muqtada al Sadr

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“Only in death will I relinquish my belts.” — Manny Pacquiao

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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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