“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.”
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“As a kid, all I thought about was death.”
“When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.”
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”
“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.”
“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”
“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”
“I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.”
“It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.”
“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.”
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”
“There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.”
“You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.”
“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”
“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.”
“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”
“People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.”
“The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.”
“We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.”
“The sole equality on earth is death.”
“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.”