967 private quotes tagged death

“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?” — Willie Aames

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“I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.” — Thomas Mann

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“I'm more afraid of marriage than death.” — Shakira

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“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.” — Daniel Boone

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“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.” — Gus Van Sant

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“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.” — Dick Gregory

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“I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.” — Tim Kaine

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“The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” — Jack Lemon

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“Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.” — Frederick Buechner

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“Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.” — Hesiod

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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.” — Boris Pasternak

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“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” — Thomas Mann

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“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.” — Alfred Russel Wallace

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“But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” — Walter Benjamin

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