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Death Quotes by John Cheever
- How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?
- The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the…
- Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
- It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of…
- To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,…
More Death Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon