Death Quotes - Page 37

• In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Hard Work, Speech

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• Death persecutes before it executes.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Death is dancing me ragged.

  Linda Hogan

  Dancing, Ragged

  Linda Hogan (1983). “Eclipse”, Amer Indian Studies Center

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• A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

  Will Graham

  Wisdom, Lying, Believe

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• Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
  Roses do blush and hang their heads

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Beauty, Swans, Snow

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• Naked I came, naked I leave the scene

  J. V. Cunningham

  Naked, Scene

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• [I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

  Bill Frist

  Careers, Support, Term Limits

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• Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Integrity, Important, Life Death

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• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Years, Shoes

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• Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

  Leo Gordon

  Life, Thinking, Hebrew

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• As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

  Leo Gordon

  Believe, Grace, Soldier

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• Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, People, Helping

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• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Office, Bravery

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• Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Agony, Truest

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soldier, Welcome, Battlefields

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Shadow, Valleys, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Dying, Slumber

  "Ideals and Doubts", 10 Illinois Law Rev 3, 1915.

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• History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

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• The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Religious, Thinking, Religion

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann, 1924.

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• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Believe, Dying

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• The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Population, Violence

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• Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Serial Killer, Killers

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Perfect, Guy

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• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, Young

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289

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• To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

  Samuel Butler

  Dying, Forget, Forgotten

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4372, Delphi Classics

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