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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Sidney Hook
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Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
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I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My county is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
Mary Stewart
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The silver swan, who, living had no note,
When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
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Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
James Shirley
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It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
Franz Werfel
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Often misattributed to Voltaire, but actually originated by Evelyn Beatrice Hall to describe Voltaire's opinions.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
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Loss and Possession, Death and Life are one.
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc
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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.... "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death!... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
Louis Kronenberger
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After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.
Immanuel Kant
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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
Leo Tolstoy
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
William Shakespeare
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel de Montaigne
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