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- Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
- Eugene Ionesco on Death
- Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
- Emily Dickinson on Death
- Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
- Elie Wiesel on Death
- Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Death
- Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
- Abbie Hoffman on Death
- Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
- Curt Schilling on Death
- Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
- Edna Ferber on Death
- Belief is the death of intelligence.
- Robert Anton Wilson on Death
- 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 on Death
- Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
- Christopher Fry on Death
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde on Death
- Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.
- Bryant H. McGill on Death
- Birth was the death of him.
- Samuel Beckett on Death
- Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
- Omar N. Bradley on Death
- Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
- Bodhidharma on Death
- Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- Ernest Hemingway on Death
- Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
- Ingrid Newkirk on Death
- But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
- Donna Shalala on Death
- But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
- Don Van Vliet on Death
- But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
- Liam Neeson on Death
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Death
- But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
- But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
- Theodore Bikel on Death
- But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
- Emma Thompson on Death
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