967 private quotes tagged death

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.” — Jean Cocteau

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“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.” — Jean Cocteau

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“I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?” — Guru Nanak

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“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.” — Angus Young

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“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.” — Stanislav Grof

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“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.” — Ani DiFranco

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“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” — Jim Morrison

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“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.” — David Hume

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“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.” — Ruth Ann Minner

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“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.” — Billy Corgan

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“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.” — Layne Staley

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“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.” — Dennis Quaid

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“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.” — Jean Baudrillard

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“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.” — Billy Corgan

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“There is something about poverty that smells like death.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.” — G. Gordon Liddy

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“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.” — William Wycherley

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“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.” — Jonathan Davis

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“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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