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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
Emily Dickinson
Love Is
Creation
Death
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" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "
Maya Angelou
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" I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come. "
Harbhajan Singh
Me
Father
I Am
" Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. "
Emily Dickinson
Pet
Know
Human
" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "
George Eliot
Never
Us
Dead
" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "
Paulo Coelho
School
Book
Child
" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "
Isaiah Berlin
Wolves
Liberty
Death
" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pay
White
Spirit
" I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. "
Damien Hirst
Beautiful
Death
Flowers
" Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you. "
Golshifteh Farahani
Death
Happens
Like
" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "
Horace
Step
Towers
Kings
" I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. "
John Keats
Over
Minute
Same
" Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. "
Joseph Stalin
Man
Solution
Problems
" We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came. "
Emily Dickinson
Child
Affection
She
" In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces. "
Andrew Lincoln
Life
Youth
Walking
" Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day. "
Mike Quigley
Day
Face
Good
" If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. "
Joseph Stalin
Government
New
Death
" I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. "
John Grisham
Try
Goal
Good
" No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. "
Karen DeCrow
Art
Health
Death
" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "
Dennis Quaid
You
Up
Break
" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "
Francis Ford Coppola
Me
Death
Growing Old
" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
Emily Dickinson
Celebrity
Famous
Punishment
" 'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders. "
Jeff Buckley
Time
Life
Death
" Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. "
Don Miguel Ruiz
Our
Fear
Death
" We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. "
John Burroughs
Man
Death
Friend
" From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. "
Edvard Munch
Flowers
Am
Body
" My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house. "
Lata Mangeshkar
Father
Responsibility
Death
" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Head
Top
Poetry
" It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. "
Voltaire
Behind
Brave
Escape
" I hope to die in the saddle seat. "
Albert Ellis
Death
Saddle
Hope
" Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. "
Hilaire Belloc
Triumph
Victory
Statistics