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  • To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart. -- Brian Jones
  • Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death. -- Vincent Bugliosi
  • If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
  • In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. -- Mark Twain
  • We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light. -- Frederick Lenz
  • 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
  • Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. -- Philip Kapleau
  • The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice. -- Edward Abbey
  • They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass. -- Lena Dunham
  • For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods. -- Griffin Jay
  • In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. -- Joseph de Maistre
  • In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'. -- Andrew Tudor
  • There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. -- Louise Penny
  • It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts. -- Patricia Briggs
  • Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' -- Liz Williams
  • He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. -- Henry Fielding
  • Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. -- Peter Diamandis
  • 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
  • There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda. -- Dennis C. Blair
  • Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.--Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother -- Lena Dunham
  • Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror. -- Vasily Grossman
  • Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. -- Sarah Vowell
  • When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. -- John Conyers
  • The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces. -- Richard Dawkins
  • These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. -- Winifred Holtby
  • His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. -- Rose George
  • I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. -- Troy King
  • The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
  • The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. -- Tom Shadyac
  • Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near. -- Hilda Doolittle
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