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Death Quotes by Edward Abbey
- I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
- The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and…
- The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
- The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent,…
- We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight…
- The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
- Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
- It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
- Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden