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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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Thirst of wealth no quiet knows,
But near the death-bed fierce grows.
View quotes by Anne Finch

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
View quotes by Mary Bateson

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow
View quotes by Mark Twain

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
View quotes by René Maheu

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
View quotes by Edna Ferber

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
View quotes by Larry Wall

Mild disarray [on Labours election plans, following the death of the Pope]
View quotes by Andrew Marr

The Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
View quotes by E N Gardiner

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and travelled on.
View quotes by Louise Erdrich

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
View quotes by Robert Hughes

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Browne

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?'
View quotes by Bette Midler

There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
View quotes by Thomas Campbell

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
View quotes by John Bright

Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking.
View quotes by Nicholas Rowe

[woman] 'You're an incredible lover' [Allen] 'I know - I practise a lot when I'm alone' from Love and Death
View quotes by Woody Allen

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.
View quotes by James F Byrnes

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
View quotes by Paula Poundstone

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one (Pale Fire)
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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