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- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan on Death
- When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
- Maurice Sendak on Death
- When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on Death
- When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
- Jonathan Davis on Death
- When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
- Kirstie Alley on Death
- When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
- When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
- Albert Brooks on Death
- When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Steven Morrissey on Death
- When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Death
- When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
- Russell Baker on Death
- When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
- Tammy Bruce on Death
- When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Death
- When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
- Ralph Fiennes on Death
- When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
- Allen Klein on Death
- When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
- Eamon De Valera on Death
- When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
- W. C. Fields on Death
- When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.
- Kerry King on Death
- When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid on Death
- When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
- John Hodgman on Death
- When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
- Marlene Dietrich on Death
- When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
- Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
- Che Guevara on Death
- Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
- Mariah Carey on Death
- Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
- Barry Goldwater on Death
- Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
- John Ruskin on Death
- Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
- Clint Eastwood on Death
- Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
- Julius Caesar on Death
- While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Death
- Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
- David Carradine on Death
- Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
- James Anthony Froude on Death
- Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
- Lewis Mumford on Death
- Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
- Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
- Veronica Franco on Death
- Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
- Eliot Spitzer on Death
- You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
- Ian Mckellen on Death
- You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Osteen on Death
- You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
- David Attenborough on Death
- You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
- Benjamin Netanyahu on Death
- You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
- Vance Havner on Death
- You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
- 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 on Death
- You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
- David Carradine on Death
- You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Death
- You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
- Ian Fleming on Death
- You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
- Robin Gibb on Death
- You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
- Francoise Sagan on Death
- You've gotta know what death is to know life!
- Jack Kevorkian on Death
- 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 on Death
- Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
- Dag Hammarskjold on Death
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