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

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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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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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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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“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.” — Jean Baudrillard

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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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“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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“There is something about poverty that smells like death.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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

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“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.” — Jonathan Davis

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

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“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.” — David Duchovny

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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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