967 private quotes tagged death

“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.” — Maurice Sendak

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“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.” — Angela Davis

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“Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.” — Berenice Abbott

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“I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.” — Robert Benchley

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“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.” — Steven Morrissey

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“When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.” — Maurice Sendak

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“For tis not in mere death that men die most.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.” — Don Van Vliet

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“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.” — Sachin Tendulkar

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“When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.” — Ralph Fiennes

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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” — Abbie Hoffman

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“Science without conscience is the death of the soul.” — Francois Rabelais

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“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.” — Tryon Edwards

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“It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.” — Wendell Berry

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“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.” — Ken Kesey

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“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.” — Loretta Young

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“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” — Elizabeth I

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“There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.” — Abu Bakr

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“You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.” — David Attenborough

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“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.” — Dean Smith

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“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.” — David Mamet

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“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” — Hugh Hefner

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