967 private quotes tagged death

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

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“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

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“I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'” — Christopher Hitchens

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“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.” — Davy Crockett

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“You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.” — Ian Mckellen

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“I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my a-s.” — Jason Reitman

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“'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.” — Michael Sheen

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“The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.” — Roger Waters

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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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“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.” — Andre Breton

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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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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.” — Anna Akhmatova

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

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

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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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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” — Anais Nin

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“The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.” — Suzanne Fields

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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.” — Jessica Simpson

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