Sudden Death Quotes

• Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

  Gerald Brenan

  Death, War, Age

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• It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Silent, Subtle

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.268

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• A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Goodbye, Ideas, Giving

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.93, Penguin

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• Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

  Saul Alinsky

  Death, Acceptance, Accepting

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• Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

  Barack Obama

  Icons, Mourning, Creative

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

  Aristotle

  Brave, Fearless, Noble

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.82

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• The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

  Peter Jennings

  Drug, Risk

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, History, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Cancer, Want, Way

  "Verge Q+A: Dr. Jack Kevorkian". Interview with Howie Kahn, www.gq.com. June 28, 2010.

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• Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.

  Derek Landy

  Book, Loss, Darkness

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Live Life, Enough, Drivers

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• Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Night, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

  John Wayne

  Art, Mistake, Hate

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• I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have to keep looking behind me to make sure nothing's happened to you." "So don't bother." "Last time I left you alone, a demon attacked you," he pointed out. "Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Sarcasm, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Loss

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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• It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

  Sibling, Fall, Fighting

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• In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Mean, Men

  "The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini‎". Book by Ruth Brandon, p. 153, 1993.

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• Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

  Margaret Mahy

  Battle, Might, Murder

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• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

  Russell Baker

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, People

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• Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

  Trudi Canavan

  Pain, Mean, Feelings

  Trudi Canavan (2009). “Last of the Wilds: Age of the Five Gods Trilogy Book 2, The”, p.4, Harper Collins

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