967 private quotes tagged death

“You've gotta know what death is to know life!” — Jack Kevorkian

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“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.” — Edvard Munch

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“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.” — Jaron Lanier

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“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” — Thomas Browne

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“It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.” — Wangari Maathai

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“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.” — Thomas Browne

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“The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.” — Paul Gascoigne

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“It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.” — Travis Barker

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“Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.” — Harry Browne

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“Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.” — Alex Winter

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“The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.” — Kate Atkinson

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“Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.” — Veronica Franco

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“I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!” — Kirk Hammett

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“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.” — Giancarlo Esposito

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“It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.” — George Osborne

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“If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.” — Bill Parcells

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“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.” — Elias Canetti

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“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” — Robert McNamara

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“I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.” — Peter Steele

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“The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.” — Wilbur Smith

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“Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.” — John Ralston Saul

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“I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.” — Martin Short

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