“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”
— Charles de Gaulle
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Category: death
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“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
— Jessamyn West
Author: Jessamyn West
Category: death
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“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”
— Charles de Secondat
Author: Charles de Secondat
Category: death
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“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
— Leo Buscaglia
Author: Leo Buscaglia
Category: death
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“I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.”
— Elton John
Author: Elton John
Category: death
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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
— Khalil Gibran
Author: Khalil Gibran
Category: death
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“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
— Fidel Castro
Author: Fidel Castro
Category: death
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“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
— Euripides
Author: Euripides
Category: death
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“Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.”
— Paul Theroux
Author: Paul Theroux
Category: death
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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
— Blaise Pascal
Author: Blaise Pascal
Category: death
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“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
— Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Category: death
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