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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Quotes by Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

Quotes by Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Quotes by Ovid

I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

Quotes by Owain Yeoman

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Quotes by Otto Frank

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Quotes by Orlando Bloom

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Quotes by Orlando Gibbons

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

Quotes by Oren Peli

I don't want to hear about my death.

Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Quotes by Omar N. Bradley

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

Quotes by Omar Amanat

When I was 17, death metal and extreme hardcore was the best music in the world to me. But as I got older, my palette changed and my thirst for melody and emotion just got bigger and bigger.

Quotes by Oliver Sykes

I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Quotes by Oliver Joseph Lodge

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Quotes by Oliver Joseph Lodge

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Quotes by Oliver Joseph Lodge

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Quotes by Oliver Reed

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Quotes by O. J. Simpson

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Quotes by Norman Tebbit

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Quotes by Norman Cousins

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Quotes by Nnedi Okorafor

I’m sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there was also the sense that this was the death of comedy. But it’s just progress.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Quotes by Nina Arianda

All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

My boyfriend, who I love to death - he's only 17 so he's the youngest guy I've ever dated - he just moved here from Hawaii to be with me and I met him when I was 10. Anyway, in Hawaii they have such a different mentality and different priorities.

Quotes by Nikki Reed

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Quotes by Nigella Lawson

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Quotes by Nigel Kennedy

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Quotes by Nicole Mones

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I survived it.

Quotes by Nick Yarris

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

Quotes by Nick Yarris

For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.

Quotes by Nick Yarris

Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.

Quotes by Nick Yarris

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

Quotes by Nick Saban

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Quotes by Nick Tosches

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Quotes by Nick Mancuso

The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to succeed of one man and the burgeoning market for middle-class status symbols. The car first appeared as a souped-up Morris Oxford in 1923 when it won the Land's End Rally.

Quotes by Nick Davies

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

Quotes by Naveen Patnaik

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

Quotes by Nathaniel Smith

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

Quotes by Nate Dogg

I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

Quotes by Natascha McElhone

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

Quotes by Natascha McElhone

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Quotes by Nastassja Kinski

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Quotes by Nat King Cole

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Quotes by Naomi Watts

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Quotes by Nancy Reagan

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

Quotes by Nancy Grace

Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).

Quotes by N. Bhaskara Rao

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Quotes by N. T. Wright

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

Quotes by Myron Scholes

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Quotes by Muqtada al Sadr

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

Quotes by Muqtada al Sadr

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

Quotes by Mother Angelica

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Quotes by Morrissey

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Quotes by Morrissey

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

Quotes by Morning Star

Everything that gets born dies.

Quotes by Morrie Schwartz

Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.

Quotes by Morgan Neville

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Quotes by Morihei Ueshiba

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

Quotes by Montesquieu

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

Quotes by Montesquieu

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

Quotes by Montesquieu

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

Quotes by Montesquieu

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Quotes by Montgomery Clift

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Quotes by Moliere

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Quotes by Miyamoto Musashi

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Quotes by Mitch Albom

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

Quotes by Mireille Mathieu

I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I'm in pain.

Quotes by Miriam Shor

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Quotes by Miranda July

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Quotes by Mircea Eliade

It scared my mom to death when all my friends started driving. She always told me she wanted me to drive, but I think she kind of felt lucky that I didn't get my permit when all my friends did. I think that's been the hardest thing for her, watching me go out with my friends and literally drive away.

Quotes by Miranda Cosgrove

Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.

Quotes by Milos Zeman

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

Quotes by Millicent Fawcett

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Quotes by Mike Simpson

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

Quotes by Mike Fitzpatrick

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

Quotes by Mike D

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Quotes by Mike Dirnt

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

Quotes by Mike Epps

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Quotes by Mike Ferguson

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

Quotes by Mickalene Thomas

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

Quotes by Michelle Williams

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