“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
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“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”
— Epicurus
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“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
— Albert Camus
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Category: death
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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
— Victor Hugo
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“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”
— Pierre Corneille
Author: Pierre Corneille
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“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“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
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Category: death
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“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
— Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
Category: death
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