967 private quotes tagged death

“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.” — Brad Pitt

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“I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.” — Damien Hirst

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“In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.” — Carol P. Christ

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“I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.” — John Hodgman

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“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.” — Dan Savage

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“Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.” — Michael Collins

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“The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.” — Damien Hirst

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“When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.” — John Hodgman

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“In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.” — Ville Valo

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“Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!” — Sonia Johnson

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“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?” — Debra Winger

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“My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.” — Jack Black

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“Life and death have been lacking in my life.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.” — Tom Waits

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“To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.” — Walter Bagehot

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“I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.” — Jesse Ventura

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“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.” — George Meredith

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“Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.” — Damien Hirst

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“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.” — Sam Snead

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“It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.” — Bernhard Langer

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“Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.” — Bjork

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“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.” — Stanislav Grof

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“There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.” — Jane Smiley

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