Death Quotes by Clarence Darrow

9 Death quotes by Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow’s nine reflections on death cut with the same incisive clarity he brought to the courtroom, questioning assumptions and exposing the human side of finality.

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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying;…

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”

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“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never…

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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must…

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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt…

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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding…

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“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.…

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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

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“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and…

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“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would…

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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a…

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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a…

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“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the…

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Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided…

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