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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

    Author: Abbie Hoffman
   

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

    Author: Abu Bakr
    Topics: Death

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

    Author: Adrienne Rich
   

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

    Author: Aeschylus
    Topics: Death

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

    Author: Aeschylus
    Topics: Children

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

    Author: Ahmed Yassin
   

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

    Author: Alan Clark
   

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

    Author: Alan Ladd
   

I'm working myself to death.

    Author: Alan Ladd
   

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

    Author: Alan Parker
   

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

    Author: Albert Claude
   

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

    Author: Albert Einstein
   

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

    Author: Albert Einstein
   

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

    Author: Aleister Crowley
   

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

    Author: Alex Campbell
   

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

    Author: Alex Campbell
   

No, I did a film called Death and the Compass as well.

    Author: Alex Cox
   

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

    Author: Alex Lifeson
   

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

    Author: Alex Winter
   

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

    Author: Alexander Chase
   

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

    Author: Alexander Dumas
   

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

    Author: Alexander Smith
   

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

    Author: Alexander Smith
   

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

    Author: Alfred Adler
   

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

    Author: Alfred Nobel
   

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

    Author: Alfred North Whitehead
   

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

    Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
   

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

    Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
   

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

    Author: Alice Thomas Ellis
   

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

    Author: Alice Walker
   

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

    Author: Alison Moyet
   

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

    Author: Allen Klein
   

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

    Author: Alphonse Karr
   

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

    Author: Alvar N. C. de Vaca
   

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

    Author: Alvar N. C. de Vaca
   

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
    Topics: Death

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

    Author: Amelia Barr
   

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

    Author: Anais Nin
   

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

    Author: Anais Nin
   

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

    Author: Anais Nin
   

People living deeply have no fear of death.

    Author: Anais Nin
   

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

    Author: Anderson Cooper
   

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

    Author: Andre Breton
   

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

    Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
   

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

    Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
   

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

    Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
   

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

    Author: Andrew Greeley
    Topics: Christianity

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

    Author: Andrew Shue
   

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

    Author: Andy Rooney
    Topics: Death

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

    Author: Angela Carter
   

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

    Author: Angela Davis
   

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

    Author: Angela Davis
   

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

    Author: Angela Davis
   

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

    Author: Angelina Jolie
   

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

    Author: Angelina Jolie
   

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

    Author: Angus Young
   

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

    Author: Ani DiFranco
   

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

    Author: Anna Akhmatova
   

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

    Author: Anna Akhmatova
   

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

    Author: Anne Bancroft
   

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

    Author: Anne Boleyn
   

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

    Author: Anne Frank
   

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

    Author: Anne Frank
   

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

    Author: Annie Lennox
   

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

    Author: Annie Lennox
   

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

    Author: Anthony Hopkins
   

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

    Author: Antonin Scalia
   

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

    Author: Aristotle
   

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

    Author: Arlo Guthrie
   

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

    Author: Arthur Koestler
   

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

    Author: Arthur Middleton
   

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

    Author: Ayn Rand
   

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

    Author: B. R. Hayden
   

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

    Author: Bao Dai
   

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

    Author: Barbara Olson
   

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

    Author: Barry Cornwall
   

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

    Author: Barry Goldwater
   

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

    Author: Barry Sonnenfeld
   

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

    Author: Basil C. Hume
   

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

    Author: Bell Hooks
    Topics: Death

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

    Author: Ben Kingsley
   

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

    Author: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
   

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Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

    Author: Alan Minter
   

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

    Author: Albert Camus
   

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

    Author: Allyson Schwartz
   

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

    Author: Amy Tan
   

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

    Author: Andy Dick
   

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

    Author: Anne Heche
   

Death's in the good-bye.

    Author: Anne Sexton
   

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

    Author: Austin Dobson
   

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

    Author: Barnett Newman
   

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

    Author: Bela Lugosi
   

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

    Author: Ben Vereen
   

Inactivity is death.

    Author: Benito Mussolini
   

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

    Author: Benjamin Bratt
   

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

    Author: Berenice Abbott
   

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

    Author: Bernhard Langer
   

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

    Author: Bertolt Brecht
   

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

    Author: Bertolt Brecht
   

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

    Author: Bertrand Russell
   

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

    Author: Beth Gibbons
   

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

    Author: Bianca Jagger
   

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

    Author: Bill Gates
   

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

    Author: Bill Hicks
   

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

    Author: Bill Paxton
   

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

    Author: Bill Shankly
   

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

    Author: Bill Shankly
   

In defence, I have cultivated a death wish.

    Author: Billy Fury
   

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

    Author: Blaise Pascal
   

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

    Author: Blaise Pascal
   

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

    Author: Blaise Pascal
   

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

    Author: Bob Beauprez
   

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

    Author: Bobby Darin
   

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

    Author: Bobby Rush
   

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

    Author: Bodhidharma
   

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

    Author: Bodhidharma
   

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

    Author: Bodhidharma
   

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

    Author: Boris Becker
   

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

    Author: Boris Pasternak
   

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

    Author: Bram Stoker
   

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

    Author: Brendan Behan
   

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

    Author: Brendan Behan
   

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

    Author: Bret Harte
   

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

    Author: Brett Hull
   

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

    Author: Brian Baird
   

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

    Author: Brian Jones
   

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

    Author: Brian Lumley
   

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

    Author: Brian May
   

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

    Author: Brian Molko
   

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

    Author: Brian Perkins
   

It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.

    Author: Brian Welch
   

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

    Author: Broderick Crawford
   

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

    Author: Brooke Shields
   

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

    Author: Bruce Jackson
   

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

    Author: Bruce Jackson
   

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

    Author: Bryant H. McGill
   

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

    Author: Bryant H. McGill
   

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

    Author: Buddha
   

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

    Author: Buddha
   

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

    Author: Buddha
   

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

    Author: Buddy Holly
   

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

    Author: 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.

    Author: Buffalo Bill
   

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

    Author: Burke Marshall
   

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

    Author: Burt Lancaster
   

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

    Author: Byron White
   

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

    Author: Byron White
   

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

    Author: Carl Clinton Van Doren
   

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

    Author: Carl Jung
   

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

    Author: Carl Sagan
   

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

    Author: Carol P. Christ
   

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

    Author: Carol P. Christ
   

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

    Author: Carter Burwell
   

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

    Author: Carter Burwell
   

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

    Author: Casey Affleck
   

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

    Author: Cat Stevens
   

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

    Author: Cecil Beaton
   

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

    Author: Chanakya
   

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

    Author: Charles Caleb Colton
    Topics: Death

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

    Author: Charles de Gaulle
   

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

    Author: Charles de Montesquieu
   

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

    Author: Charles de Montesquieu
   

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

    Author: Charles de Secondat
   

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

    Author: Charles Ferguson Smith
   

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

    Author: Charles Frohman
   

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

    Author: Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
   

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

    Author: Charles Mackay
   

The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.

    Author: Charles W. Pickering
   

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

    Author: Charlotte Bronte
   

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

    Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
   

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

    Author: Che Guevara
   

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

    Author: Cher
   

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

    Author: Christian Lous Lange
   

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

    Author: Christine Lahti
   

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

    Author: Christopher Fry
   

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

    Author: Christopher Shays
   

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

    Author: Christy Turlington
   

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