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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot on death

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley on death

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
Jane Smiley on death

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.
Jane Smiley on death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu on death

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming on death

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
J. J. Abrams on death

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Barbara Corcoran on death

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Mary Baker Eddy on death

There is nothing glamorous about death.
Roger Moore on death

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins on death

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy on death

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.
George Sewell on death

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Jose Marti on death

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
Robin Gibb on death

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
Heather Mills on death

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
Donny Osmond on death

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
Mary Schmich on death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner on death

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan on death