“I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.”
— Emma Thompson
Author: Emma Thompson
Category: death
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Category: death
Without fullness of experience, length of days
“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
Author: Lewis Mumford
Category: death
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In this world nothing can be said
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: death
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The North understand it better – they
“The North understand it better – they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits – surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.”
— Robert Toombs
Author: Robert Toombs
Category: death
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Pay mind to your own life, your
“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.”
— Frederick Buechner
Author: Frederick Buechner
Category: death
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We cast away priceless time in dreams,
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
— Judy Garland
Author: Judy Garland
Category: death
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither
“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar.”
— Xun Zi
Author: Xun Zi
Category: death
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Prepare a noble death song for the
“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”
— Tecumseh
Author: Tecumseh
Category: death
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People want the right to die at
“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”
— Polly Toynbee
Author: Polly Toynbee
Category: death
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Life is a banquet, and most poor
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”
— Rosalind Russell
Author: Rosalind Russell
Category: death
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I was not encouraged to follow the
“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
— Paulo Coelho
Author: Paulo Coelho
Category: death
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