967 private quotes tagged death

“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” — Jean Cocteau

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“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

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“I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” — Rainn Wilson

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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” — Ashley Montagu

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“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell

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“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” — Oliver Reed

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“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.” — Billy Graham

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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

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“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” — Emily Dickinson

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“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” — Philip Johnson

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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” — Robert M. Hutchins

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“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.” — Giovanni Falcone

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“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.” — John Donne

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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” — Andy Rooney

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.” — George Santayana

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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” — Juliette Binoche

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