967 private quotes tagged death

“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.” — Jonathan Davis

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“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.” — Denis Diderot

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“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.” — John Dryden

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“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.” — David Duchovny

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“There are only 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 Bruyere

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“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.” — Mel Brooks

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“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.” — Jean Cocteau

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“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.” — Moses

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“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.” — Dennis Prager

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“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” — William Lloyd Garrison

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“Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.” — Bell Hooks

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“For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.” — Susan Sontag

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“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.” — Liam Neeson

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“All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.” — Red Skelton

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“There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.” — Stanislav Grof

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“But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.” — Liam Neeson

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“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.” — Paula Poundstone

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“The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“Each instant of life is a step toward death.” — Pierre Corneille

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“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.” — David Duchovny

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“The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.” — Dennis Miller

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