I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney LoveIn the last couple of days before the deadline was extended I would have said it was in the death throes and time for the last rites. Now it is on life support with a bit of blinking going on [On Channel 4 racing]
John McCririckThe word 'civilization' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
Henry MillerDeath has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Philip MassingerLife is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward YoungThere was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Thomas CampbellHer late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - pour soul!
William Archibald SpoonerWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela DavisIt is, I think, good evidence of life after death (on the quality of debate in the House of Lords)
Donald SoperThere are but three events in a man's life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean De La BruyereIt is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
OuidaWho can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat
Edward YoungThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias CanettiMelbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?'
Bette MidlerLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuLife 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 NinIf a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam SneadIf some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean De La BruyereBeauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene IonescoThis is the most obscene remark made by a senior politician in recent years and signals a shift to the right of terrifying proportions. If the death penalty had been in place for the last 30 years, dozens of people, who were later proved innocent, would have been killed. [In response to a Tory MP speaking in favour of the death penalty]
Mark OatenI was scared to death of him the first time I met him. I still am actually [on Alex Ferguson]
Paul ScholesIn our rampantly secular world, biography is now the only form of life after death
David CannadineI answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
Maya AngelouThe mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
Clive BarnesThe 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 SingerA single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph StalinA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyWell, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win! [after announcing the death of Pope Paul VI, 1978]
Phil RizzutoLife itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Sir Thomas BrowneThis existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
BuddhaThe angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
John BrightOh death, rock me asleep, Bring me to quiet rest, Let pass my weary guiltless ghost Out of my careful breast.
Anne BoleynBest while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)
John FletcherHe who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias CanettiA citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
( Funeral oration on the death of George Washington.)
Henry LeeWe have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Mahmoud AbbasAthletes have other athletes as competitors. My competitor is death.
Robbie KnievelBeing an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna FerberAnything that feels that good couldn't possibly be bad. There's something about death that is comforting, the thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina JolieJust like Eric Morecambe, you feel like you've lost a dear friend [on the death of Ronnie Barker]
Peter KayAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerAt a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George CarlinBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesGrief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean De La BruyereDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore RooseveltDeath and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven
MichelangeloGenerosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
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