967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.” — Stanislav Grof

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“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.” — Ani DiFranco

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“You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.” — Billy Corgan

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“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.” — David Hume

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“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.” — Ruth Ann Minner

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“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.” — Billy Corgan

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“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.” — Layne Staley

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“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.” — Dennis Quaid

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

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“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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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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“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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“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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

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“There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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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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