There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
Colin PowellThere 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 BruyereCreativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo MayMelbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?'
Bette MidlerAthletes have other athletes as competitors. My competitor is death.
Robbie KnievelOf man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden.
John MiltonI knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger AngellI am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully [is that the kiss of death?]
Tony BlairIt is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit'I guess that's why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet.'
- After a 'new and improved' Windows 98-running PC crashed leaving a 'Blue Screen Of Death' during a demonstration in front of about a thousand reporters and live on CNN
Bill GatesIt is, I think, good evidence of life after death (on the quality of debate in the House of Lords)
Donald SoperDeath is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.
YodaThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Herman HesseI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
W B YeatsAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse KarrNothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth LloydIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan SwiftVirtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward YoungI 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. (Journal)
George FoxI think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
Ruth RendellHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik EriksonPerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James BaldwinCongratulations on your appointment. I have watched the careers of all your
predecessors and I am certain you will die a lonely death and be buried in a traitor's grave [the first email he is said to have received upon his appointment]
Jim MurphyIf a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam SneadRome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
Thomas HuxleyBecause I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
and Immortality..
Emily DickinsonI will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the [Iraq] war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusI was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi AnnanA Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Robert HughesIt has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
Ella WilcoxWhat pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan SontagDeath is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis BaconSenator [Coleman], in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies
George GallowayThere is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
Fran LebowitzBeing an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna FerberAll has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
Anna AkhmatovaIt's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed. [enjoying life at Notts County!]
Howard WilkinsonLife 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 NinFor precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William ShakespeareDeath is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Henry Scott HollandHe who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias CanettiEvery one has before his eyes an end which he pursues till death; but for many that end is a feather which they blow before them in the air.
Robert NicollDeath most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil GibranGrief 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 BruyereAlexander sees everything as just a struggle against the inevitable, which is death.
Thomas H ChurchDeath is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas RoweI agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard
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