Life & Death Sayings

133 sayings found from the Modern era from 133 authors

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

— H.G. Wells Uncertain
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The only way to understand life is to live it, and the only way to understand death is to die.

— Allen Ginsberg 1980s
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I am a devil, and you, my friend, are a demon.

— Alexander Pushkin 1826
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I am a very ambitious man, and I want to be famous, even after my death.

— Lord Byron 1818
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I don't mind dying, but I hate to leave my friends.

— Langston Hughes 1960s (approx)
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The world is before you, and you need not take it, or suffer it, for what it is. You can also make it what it will be.

— James Baldwin 1972
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1933
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We are born astride of a grave, and a hellish light gleams for a instant, then it's night once more.

— Samuel Beckett 1953
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Women are machines for suffering.

— Pablo Picasso 1964
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I have such a fear of not being able to finish what I have undertaken.

— Claude Monet 1890
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

— Miles Davis Unknown
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I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

— Jimi Hendrix 1969
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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for a two-timing rat.

— Frank Sinatra 1950s-1960s
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If you don't have something to die for, you don't have anything to live for.

— Billie Holiday 1956
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

— Antonio Gramsci 1930
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I have always been interested in the moon. The way it shines in the dark.

— Georgia O'Keeffe 1975
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My greatest fear is to repeat myself.

— Giuseppe Verdi Various
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Seek the essential, but do not necessarily destroy the ornament.

— Henri Matisse Unknown
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Disease, insanity, and death were the black angels that guarded my cradle and accompanied me all my life.

— Edvard Munch Unknown
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I've always been drawn to the darker side of things.

— Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) 1975
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