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there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Remember why you are here and why you are alive. Have faith in your dreams no matter how far they might seem.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.