967 private quotes tagged death

“Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.” — Abu Bakr

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“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.” — Edvard Munch

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“I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.” — Mercedes McCambridge

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“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.” — Lewis Mumford

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“Death, the final, triumphant lover.” — Bela Lugosi

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“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.” — Robert Falcon Scott

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“My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.” — Buffalo Bill

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“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.” — Gloria Steinem

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“The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.” — Simon Cowell

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“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.” — Heinrich Heine

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“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.” — Marcia Wallace

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“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan

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“I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!” — Kirk Hammett

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“When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.” — Russell Baker

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“Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.” — Thomas Francis Meagher

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“Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.” — Edna Ferber

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“I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.” — Umberto Eco

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“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.” — Thornton Wilder

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“But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.” — Theodore Bikel

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“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” — Mariah Carey

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“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.” — John Cusack

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