967 private quotes tagged death

“Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.” — Jean Anouilh

0 favs

“To awake from death is to die in peace.” — Douglas Horton

0 favs

“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

0 favs

“It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.” — Cate Blanchett

0 favs

“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.” — Alexander Smith

0 favs

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne

0 favs

“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.” — Graham Greene

0 favs

“I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” — Rainn Wilson

0 favs

“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell

0 favs

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” — Chuck Palahniuk

0 favs

“I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.” — Florence Welch

0 favs

“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.” — Desiderius Erasmus

0 favs

“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.” — Daniel H. Wilson

0 favs

“I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'” — Jenny Eclair

0 favs

“People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.” — Keith Henson

0 favs

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

0 favs

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” — Eugene Ionesco

0 favs

“I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.” — George Fox

0 favs

“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.” — Bob Dylan

0 favs

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

0 favs

“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.” — David Herbert Lawrence

0 favs

“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

0 favs

“I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!” — Jamie Foxx

0 favs

“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.” — Isaiah Berlin

0 favs

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.” — Michael Sheen

0 favs