#death

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ↗

— John Donne

#any #because #bell #death #diminishes

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

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#breath #credits #deathbed #even #get

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. ↗

— David Duchovny

#celebrities #celebrity #country #death #human

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#courage #death #strength #attitude

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#birth #certificate #death #given #government

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#death #death tax #destroys #family #family-owned

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life #death

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#die #fast #i #i can #long

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#discouraging #humiliating #limit #very