“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
— Plato
Author: Plato
Category: death
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Category: death
There is no such thing as an
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
— Elias Canetti
Author: Elias Canetti
Category: death
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
— David Mamet
Author: David Mamet
Category: death
Tags: death, David Mamet
I mean in the South African case,
“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.”
— Desmond Tutu
Author: Desmond Tutu
Category: death
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If I die a violent death, as
“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”
— Indira Gandhi
Author: Indira Gandhi
Category: death
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For any culture which is primarily concerned
“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
— Stanislav Grof
Author: Stanislav Grof
Category: death
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Death is a fearful thing.
“Death is a fearful thing.”
— William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Category: death
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All architects want to live beyond their
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
— Philip Johnson
Author: Philip Johnson
Category: death
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I was fantasising about my own death,
“I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.”
— Billy Corgan
Author: Billy Corgan
Category: death
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A nation or civilization that continues to
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Category: death
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence
“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
— Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
Category: death
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