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• There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Topics in Death

• In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Generation, Conquest

• You want a story? Read ‘Gone With the Wind’. These aren’t stories. They’re joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

  Brian P Cleary

  Topics in Death

  Tags in End

• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Topics in Death, Nature

• It’s not life or death it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

  Bernhard Langer

  Topics in Death, Life

• The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Concern

• I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

  David Blaine

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Believe

• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  Ward Churchill

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Destruction

• Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

  Burt Lancaster

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Succeed

• And that’s why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We’ve seen them in a million movies and it’s too much like cranking the tears out. I didn’t want that scene.

  Christine Lahti

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Purpose, Million

• Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.

  Daryl Hall

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Heart

• People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don’t take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Problem

• We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

  Peter Krause

  Topics in Country, Death

• Love’s stronger than fear and death.

  Steve Hackett

  Topics in Death, Fear

• I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

  Tracy Chapman

  Topics in Death

• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

  Ryan White

  Topics in Death

• Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.

  Ron Dee White

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Trying

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war – at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Topics in Death

• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  George Etherege

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Violent, Passion

• I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

  Emilio Estevez

  Topics in America, Death

  Tags in Decency