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3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

3 December 2020 Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

3 December 2020 David Mamet

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett

It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

3 December 2020 Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

3 December 2020 Sogyal Rinpoche

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

3 December 2020 Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

3 December 2020 Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

3 December 2020 Confucius

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

3 December 2020 Peter Tosh

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

3 December 2020 Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

3 December 2020 Mario Puzo

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

3 December 2020 Andrew Coyle Bradley

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

3 December 2020 Anne Frank

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

I can’t turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I’m sick to death of me.

3 December 2020 Alex Campbell

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

3 December 2020 Hesiod

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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