967 private quotes tagged death

“When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.” — John Hodgman

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“In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.” — Ville Valo

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“Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!” — Sonia Johnson

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“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?” — Debra Winger

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“My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.” — Jack Black

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“Life and death have been lacking in my life.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.” — Tom Waits

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“To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.” — Walter Bagehot

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“I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.” — Jesse Ventura

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“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.” — George Meredith

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“Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.” — Damien Hirst

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“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.” — Sam Snead

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“It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.” — Bernhard Langer

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“Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.” — Bjork

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“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.” — Stanislav Grof

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“There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.” — Jane Smiley

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“If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.” — J. B. Priestley

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“People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.” — Anna Deavere Smith

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“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.” — Vance Havner

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“My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.” — Judy Collins

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“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.” — Hilaire Belloc

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“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” — Ian Fleming

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“Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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