Life & Death Sayings

325 sayings found from 325 authors

I always fear that I shall be accused of extravagance.

— Marie Antoinette 1775
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I am not a saint, but I am not a devil either.

— Rasputin c. 1910s
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I can't die but once.

— Harriet Tubman c. 1850s
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The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right.

— Frederick Douglass 1867
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

— Sylvia Plath 1959
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There were times when it would have been easy to give up, but I knew that if I did, others would suffer.

— Rosa Parks Late 20th Century
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Oh, for some work in the world! It has been given to me to suffer and to serve.

— Florence Nightingale 1846
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

— Albert Schweitzer Unknown
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I like it that the dead don't talk. If they did, the past would be even more unbearable than it already is.

— Kurt Vonnegut 1997
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

— Helen Keller Unknown
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I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

— Anne Frank 1944
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The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood.

— Emmeline Pankhurst 1913
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

— Eleanor Roosevelt 1947
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I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.

— Princess Diana 1995
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I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

— Greta Thunberg 2019
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If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

— Malala Yousafzai 2013
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

— Alfred Hitchcock 1960s
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The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

— C.S. Lewis 1942
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1960s
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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

— Stanley Kubrick Unknown, but often attributed
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