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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer on death

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch on death

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
Jessica Simpson on death

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
Simon Cowell on death

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott on death

The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey on death

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes on death

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford on death

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel on death

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine on death

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman on death

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
Lena Dunham on death

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
Stanislav Grof on death

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey on death

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack on death

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann on death

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!
Kirk Hammett on death

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
Gus Van Sant on death

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus on death

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Keith Henson on death