967 private quotes tagged death

“My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.” — Mary Schmich

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“Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.” — Ingrid Newkirk

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“In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.” — Jonathan Larson

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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.” — Alastair Campbell

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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” — Jim Morrison

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“People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin

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“The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.” — Bill Gates

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“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.” — E. M. Forster

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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 is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.” — Anthony Hopkins

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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” — Tecumseh

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry

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“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?” — Jim Carrey

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“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” — Jim Morrison

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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.” — Mel Brooks

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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.” — Che Guevara

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin

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

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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