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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. -- James Russell Lowell
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film. -- Martin Scorsese
To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me! -- Artie Lange
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. -- Robert Hewison
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
Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying. -- Terry Teachout
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it. -- Michael Leunig
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. -- Joseph Conrad
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. -- Steve Earle
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. -- Simon McBurney
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. -- Veronica Franco
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief. -- Jan Hus
Death is a mighty, universal truth. -- Charles Dickens
Capital T-truth is about life before death. -- David Foster Wallace
Death offers mankind a full view of truth. -- Socrates
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover -- Marcel Proust
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. -- Philip K. Dick
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things. -- Marianne Faithfull
Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth. -- Khalil Gibran
The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death. -- Dan Brown
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death. -- Shakira
To truth there is no error. To life there is no death. -- Walter Starcke
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death. -- Sam Harris
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. -- Herman Melville
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds. -- John Dryden
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. -- Peter Tosh
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement. -- Pablo Neruda
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. -- Pema Chodron
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. -- John Milton
The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. -- Hillary Jordan
To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth. -- Sorin Cerin
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. -- Agnes Moorehead
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. -- Michel Foucault
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. -- Adam Johnson
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer. -- Richard Ford
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject. -- Oscar Zeta Acosta
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant -- Gregory Corso
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth. -- Ramon Llull
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. -- William Hazlitt
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. -- Alfred Noyes
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth. -- Thomas Brooks
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. -- C. S. Lewis
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. -- Henry Miller
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth. -- Husam Wafaei
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. -- Richard Wright
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. -- Alison Bechdel
None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. -- Swami Vivekananda
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down. -- Kevin Barry
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death -- Socrates
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death. -- Georges Hebert
Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute. -- Rick Perry
Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death. -- Jan Hus
We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. -- Adolf Hitler
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing! -- Sadegh Hedayat
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. -- Roland Barthes

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