“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.”
“And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.”
“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”
“A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”
“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.”
“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.”
“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.”
“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.”
“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.”
“My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.”
“Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
“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.'”
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
“All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.”
“It 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.”