Life And Death Quotes - Page 29

• Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Matter, Skirts

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

  Brad Warner

  Understanding, Live Your Life, Just Live

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.62, New World Library

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• Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Littles, Mysterious, States

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Thinking, Leaning Back

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Differences, Mad

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

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• When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Peace, Struggle

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Hate, Two, Joy

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Revelations: Number 3 in series”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dark, Light, Break Through

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.42

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• A man is not completely born until he is dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

  Billy Corgan

  Phoenix, Ashes, Stories

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Childhood, Desire

  "Hugh Hefner dead: The Playboy founder in his own words". www.abc.net.au. September 28, 2017.

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

  Andrew Cuomo

  Needs, Information, Matter

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• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  Ed Sheeran

  Inspiration, Love Life, People

  "Redhead Redemption: Ed Sheeran". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

  Leon Panetta

  People, Decision, Cia

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• If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

  Bill Parcells

  Fun, Fine, Ifs

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• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Funeral, Dying

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Believe

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Wisdom, Block, Struggle

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Happy Life, Views

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Music And Life, Needs

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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