967 private quotes tagged death

“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” — Juliette Binoche

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“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” — Bill Shankly

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“I don't want to hear about my death.” — Oriana Fallaci

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“As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.” — Alexei Sayle

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“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” — Alexander Smith

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“Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.” — Yasser Arafat

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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“Death is the final wake-up call.” — Douglas Horton

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“Death's in the good-bye.” — Anne Sexton

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“I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.” — Liza Minnelli

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“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.” — Rosalind Russell

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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.” — Horace

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“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” — B. R. Hayden

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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.” — Mary Catherine Bateson

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“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” — Jim Morrison

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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” — Carter Burwell

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“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.” — Alice Thomas Ellis

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“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.” — David Sarnoff

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anais Nin

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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” — E. W. Howe

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“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.” — W. H. Auden

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“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” — Willa Cather

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