“I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.”
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“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.”
“I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
“Inactivity is death.”
“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.”
“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
“I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?”
“The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.”
“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”
“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.”
“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.”
“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”
“You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.”
“I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.”
“Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.”
“Only in death will I relinquish my belts.”
“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.”
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.”
“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”