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Death

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. – John Cusack

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! – Kirk Hammett

Death, the final, triumphant lover. – Bela Lugosi

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. – Johnny Carson

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. – Buffalo Bill

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. – Buffalo Bill

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

Death is the final wake-up call. – Douglas Horton

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. – Douglas Horton

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. – Giacomo Casanova

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. – Jennifer Lopez

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. – Thomas Francis Meagher

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. – Thornton Wilder

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. – Theodore Bikel

Failure too is a form of death. – Graham Greene

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. – Angela Davis