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- There is death in the pot.
- Bible, Kings iv. 40.
- For the wages of sin is death.
- Bible, Romans vi. 23.
- O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 55.
- Be thou faithful unto death.
- Bible, Revelation ii. 10.
- It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-27-1939
- The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off... They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating. - Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), On the Improvement of the Understanding
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