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3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

3 December 2020 Ralph Fiennes

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it’s packaged as the Night Out, then that’s the death of it.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

3 December 2020 David Mitchell

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

3 December 2020 Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

3 December 2020 Elias Canetti

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.

3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle

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.

3 December 2020 Davy Crockett

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

3 December 2020 Ethel Waters

I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

3 December 2020 Julie Benz

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you’re in your death bed and that’s it, I think it’s the relationships you’ve had and the people that you’ve touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

3 December 2020 Jean Giraudoux

I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

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.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

The Supreme Court of the United States… has validated the Nazi method of execution in… concentration camps, starving them to death.

3 December 2020 William Shatner

Death is an absolute marvel.

3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

3 December 2020 George Lincoln Rockwell

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

3 December 2020 Travis Barker

I looked Death right in the face.

3 December 2020 E. W. Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

3 December 2020 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

3 December 2020 Johnny Cash

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

3 December 2020 Florence Welch

I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

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