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Dies Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

13 Dies quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw’s 13 lines on mortality cut straight to the chase, often exposing societal absurdities while offering a compassionate view of the inevitable. It’s a concise, thought‑provoking read for anyone who likes a dash of satire with their philosophy.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor…

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I…

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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on.…

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian…

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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