T Quotes
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“The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.”
Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
“The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.”
“The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.”
“The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!" "Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?”
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
“The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.”
“The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.”
“The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print.”
Source: After Sappho
“The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“The death of a dream is the day that you stop believing in the work it takes to get there.”
“The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.”
Source: The Lost Love Collection: Even Now and Ever After
“the death of a great man demands the birth of a great son”
“The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.”
“The death of a loved one is one of the worst experiences that life has to offer and yet it’s unavoidable, the only alternative being never loving in the first place. Life is so feeble, its flame extinguished as easily as blowing out a candle. All it takes is a misplaced step or disease, life eventually takes its course and the destination is always death.”
Source: The Girl from Rostov
“The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fulfilled, impacts linger behind as at the time life goes to hide!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.”
“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”
“The ‘death’ of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. ‘Dead’ metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally ‘outlive’ the specific words and expressions that involve them.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“The death of a person is not some number. Everyone’s lives must have meaning. What’s written here is something you could never feel from the words ‘four dead.’ It’s their breath.”
Source: 文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
“The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.”
“The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.”
“The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.”
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
“The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The death of all relationships reveal a slow decay in mutual courtesy. An erosion of respect.”
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.”
“The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.”
Source: This Immortal
“The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.”
“the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.”
Source: Me
“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”
“The death of any man will not remove God's throne.”
“The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.”
“The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.”
“The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.”
“The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.”
Source: The Death of Christ
“The death of Christ made it possible for God to accept sinful man, and that he has, in fact, done so. Consequently, whatever separation there is between man and the benefits of God's grace is subjective in nature and exists only in man's mind and unregenerate spirit. The message man needs to hear then, is not that he simply has a suggested opportunity for salvation, but that through Christ he has, in fact, already been redeemed to God and that he may enjoy the blessing that are already his through Christ”
“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”
Source: Critical Entertainments
“The death of contentment is comparison.”
“The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.”
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
“The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.”
“The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.”
“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
“The death of each days life”
“The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.”
Source: A common room: essays, 1954-1987
“The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.”
“The death of George Floyd has been used as a catalyst. It was the kind of “event” for which the aforesaid revolutionary formation (Black Lives Matter) was created. Now, Black Lives Matter has become a power in its own right.
It is only the ignorance of the many, and the “fog of war,” that makes the casual observer dubious as to authorship of the present insurrection. For those who have not studied communist tactics, further shocks are in store. The existing political system failed to support the thin blue line, and that line is crumbling. The communists are winning.”