Death Quotes
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa (Death Quotes)
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it (Death Quotes)
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour (Death Quotes)
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, and from the organ pipe of fraity sings his soul and body to their lasting rest (Death Quotes)
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 (Death Quotes)
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions (Death Quotes)
O our lives' sweetness, that we the pain of death would hourly die rather than die at once! (Death Quotes)
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death (Death Quotes)
Safe in a ditch he bides, with twenty trenched gashes on his head, the least a death to nature (Death Quotes)
God knows I loved my niece, and she is dead, slandered to death by villains, that dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops! (Death Quotes)
Tis our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths, while we unburden'd crawl toward death (Death Quotes)
Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And lips o you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death (Death Quotes)
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other (Death Quotes)
If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee (Death Quotes)
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance (Death Quotes)
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death (Death Quotes)
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense (Death Quotes)
We often see, against some storm, a silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, the bold winds speechless, and the orb below as hush as death (Death Quotes)
I drew this gallant head of war, and cull'd these fiery spirits from the world, to outlook conquest and to win renown even in the jaws of danger and of death (Death Quotes)
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen (Death Quotes)
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me (Death Quotes)
How oft, when men are at the point of death, have they been merry! Which their keepers call a lightning before death (Death Quotes)
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death (Death Quotes)
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith (Death Quotes)
What's yet in this that bears the name of life? Yet in this life lie hid more thousand deaths; yet death we fear, that makes these odds all even (Death Quotes)
It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, unless the adage must be verified, that beggars mounted run their horse to death (Death Quotes)
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom (Death Quotes)
Beyond the infinite and boundless reach of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death, art thou damned, hubert (Death Quotes)
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 (Death Quotes)
Why then, god's soldier be he. Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death: and so his knell in knolled (Death Quotes)