967 private quotes tagged death

“As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.” — Maurice Sendak

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“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.” — Thomas Mann

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“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.” — Gloria Swanson

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“I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.” — Russell Crowe

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“Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.” — Simon Travaglia

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“Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.” — Abu Bakr

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“The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.” — Paul Kurtz

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“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.” — William Law

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“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“Life is a predicament which precedes death.” — Henry James

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“I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.” — Larry Wall

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“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.” — Cher

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“The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.” — Anne Lamott

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“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.” — Pierre Corneille

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“I'm working myself to death.” — Alan Ladd

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“My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.” — Elizabeth I

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“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.” — Laurence Sterne

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“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.” — Karen Armstrong

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“I'm not afraid of death.” — Maurice Sendak

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“Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“As a kid, all I thought about was death.” — Maurice Sendak

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