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3 December 2020 Sophocles

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

3 December 2020 Denis Diderot

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

3 December 2020 Jim Morrison

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

3 December 2020 Dick Gregory

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

3 December 2020 Don Van Vliet

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I’ve looked outside and seen people starving to death.

3 December 2020 Bodhidharma

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

3 December 2020 Maya Lin

If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

3 December 2020 Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

3 December 2020 Graham Greene

Failure too is a form of death.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

3 December 2020 Leo Burnett

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

3 December 2020 Fulton J. Sheen

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

3 December 2020 Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

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.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

People think celebrities don’t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It’s like you’ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

3 December 2020 Harriet Tubman

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.

3 December 2020 Stendhal

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

3 December 2020 George Carlin

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world.

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