Life & Death Sayings

325 sayings found from 325 authors

The sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

— Sigmund Freud 1932
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

— Carl Jung Unknown
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The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.

— Maimonides c. 1190
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

— Thomas More c. 1516-1535
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You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.

— Donald Trump 2015
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 1995
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To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
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If my kid did that [jump off a bridge because they're sad], I'd be pissed. What a fucking moron! I wouldn't even give him a funeral.

— Andrew Tate Undated, widely circulated
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke 1795-1797 (approx)
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The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

— Jeremy Bentham 1789
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The problem of society is not how to abolish evil, but how to make it productive.

— Georg Simmel 1908
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When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively.

— Emile Durkheim 1897
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Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

— Mata Hari Early 20th Century
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

— Corazon Aquino 1986
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The death of the author is the birth of the reader.

— Jacques Derrida 1967 (conceptually)
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles 5th century BCE
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The only way to be free is to accept the necessity of our own death.

— Simone Weil 1947 (posthumous)
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

— Rumi 13th Century
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The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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The torch of doubt is lit at the moment of our birth and is not extinguished until the moment of our death.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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