967 private quotes tagged death

“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

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“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.” — T. D. Jakes

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“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” — Oliver Reed

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“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“Grumbling is the death of love.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“Virtue alone has majesty in death.” — Edward Young

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“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“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

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“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.” — Paracelsus

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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” — Wallace Stevens

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“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.” — Martha Beck

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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