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Death Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that…
- All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
- There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.
- Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
- The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
- No art is possible without a dance with death.
- The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
- If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
- I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
- What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- 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