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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
[ Honor ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
[ Tyranny ]
Aeschylus
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58 votes
Marriage is the death of hope.
[ Marriage ]
Woody Allen
Woody Allen books
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47 votes
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
[ Death and Dying ]
Woody Allen
Woody Allen books
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77 votes
O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
[ War ]
C. D. Andrews
C. D. Andrews books
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69 votes
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
C. D. Andrews
C. D. Andrews books
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79 votes
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
[ Courage ]
Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh books
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56 votes
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
[ Death and Dying ]
Arabian Proverb
Arabian Proverb books
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75 votes
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
[ Biography ]
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot books
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
[ Death and Dying ]
Marcus Aurelius
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72 votes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
[ Fear ]
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius books
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67 votes
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
[ Death and Dying ]
Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold books
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
[ Eroticism ]
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille books
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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.
[ Death and Dying ]
Joseph Bayly
Joseph Bayly books
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61 votes
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
[ Death and Dying ]
Joseph Bayly
Joseph Bayly books
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59 votes
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
[ Death and Dying ]
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont books
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62 votes
Birth was the death of him.
[ Birth ]
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett books
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41 votes
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
[ Death and Dying ]
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher books
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69 votes
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
[ Death and Dying ]
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc books
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62 votes
The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.
[ Ecology ]
Morris Bergman
Morris Bergman books
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51 votes
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
[ Honor ]
Bhagavad Gita
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For such is God our God, forever and ever. He will guide us until death. [Psalm 48:14]
[ Direction ]
Bible
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55 votes
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Bible
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51 votes
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]
[ Death and Dying ]
Bible
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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]
[ Death and Dying ]
Bible
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]
[ Death and Dying ]
Bible
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There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]
[ Luck ]
Bible
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40 votes
You can't aim a duck to death.
[ Action ]
Gael Boardman
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37 votes
It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
[ Martyrdom ]
Napoleon Bonaparte
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49 votes
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
[ Death and Dying ]
Napoleon Bonaparte
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39 votes
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
[ Change ]
Ludwig Borne
Ludwig Borne books
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67 votes
Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
[ Obesity ]
Shelley Bovey
Shelley Bovey books
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61 votes
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
[ Anger ]
John F. Boyes
John F. Boyes books
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68 votes
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
[ Courage ]
Omar Bradley
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52 votes
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
[ Life and Living ]
Bertolt Brecht
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43 votes
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
[ Talent ]
Gerald Brenan
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When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
[ Lovers ]
Robert Bridges
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
[ Admiration ]
Rupert Brooke
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69 votes
Death is the cure for all diseases.
[ Death and Dying ]
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne books
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45 votes
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
[ Death and Dying ]
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne books
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55 votes
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
[ Death and Dying ]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning books
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44 votes
The fear of death is worse than death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Robert Burton
Robert Burton books
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45 votes
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
[ Marriage ]
Lord Byron
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58 votes
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
[ Death and Dying ]
Lord Byron
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43 votes
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
[ Honor ]
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar books
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48 votes
Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.
[ Surprises ]
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar books
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53 votes
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
[ Death and Dying ]
Elias Canetti
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38 votes
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
[ Death and Dying ]
Johnny Carson
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
[ Remedies ]
Miguel De Cervantes
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41 votes