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Death

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. – Billy Corgan

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. – Billy Corgan

Only in death will I relinquish my belts. – Manny Pacquiao

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. – Jean Baudrillard

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. – George Fox

There is something about poverty that smells like death. – Zora Neale Hurston

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. – Jean de la Bruyere

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. – Jean de la Bruyere

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. – Jessica Lange

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life. – Moses

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. – John Dryden

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. – Dennis Prager

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. – Dag Hammarskjold

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. – William Lloyd Garrison

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. – Red Skelton

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. – Stanislav Grof

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. – Ani DiFranco