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- In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Death
- In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
- Tom Robbins on Death
- In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
- Thomas Wolfe on Death
- In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank on Death
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
- Henry Miller on Death
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
- Terry Pratchett on Death
- In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
- Dag Hammarskjold on Death
- In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Death
- In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
- Jonathan Larson on Death
- In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
- Daniel Boone on Death
- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin on Death
- Inactivity is death.
- Benito Mussolini on Death
- Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
- Lorna Luft on Death
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein on Death
- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry on Death
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
- Karen Armstrong on Death
- It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
- Jacqueline Cochran on Death
- 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 on Death
- It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
- Wendell Berry on Death
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- Eric Hoffer on Death
- It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
- Jim Carrey on Death
- It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Death
- It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
- It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
- Christy Turlington on Death
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
- Jonathan Swift on Death
- It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
- Woody Allen on Death
- It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
- Donald Cargill on Death
- It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann on Death
- It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
- Gertrude Stein on Death
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius on Death
- It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
- Henry Fielding on Death
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- Michel De Montaigne on Death
- It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Death
- 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 on Death
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Death
- It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
- It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Death
- It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
- It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
- John Steinbeck on Death
- It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
- Anna Akhmatova on Death
- It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
- Wangari Maathai on Death
- It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
- Gloria Steinem on Death
- It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
- Giancarlo Esposito on Death
- It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
- Garrett Hedlund on Death
- It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
- Jeanne Moreau on Death
- It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
- George Osborne on Death
- It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
- Bernhard Langer on Death
- It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
- Cate Blanchett on Death
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