967 private quotes tagged death

“Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.” — Steven Morrissey

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“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.” — Herodotus

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“The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.” — Terry Pratchett

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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” — Giuseppe Garibaldi

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“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.” — Ivan Illich

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

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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.” — Hermann Hesse

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

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“I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.” — Ryan Gosling

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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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“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.” — Johnny Cash

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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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“Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.” — Seneca

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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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“Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.” — Bertolt Brecht

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

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“Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.” — Ahmed Yassin

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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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“I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.” — Emma Thompson

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“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.” — Florence Nightingale

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“The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.” — Emile M. Cioran

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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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“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.” — Jean Cocteau

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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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“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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