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- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
- I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947), In Allsop, The Bootleggers (1961)
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last. - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion (1808)
- Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- Death hath so many doors to let out life.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), The Custom of the Country (1647)
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
- The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Death of a Salesman
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