“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.”
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“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”
“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.”
“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.”
“I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!”
“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. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.”
“I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.”
“Death, the final, triumphant lover.”
“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.”
“So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.”
“Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.”
“When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.”
“Death is the final wake-up call.”
“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.”
“I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.”
“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”
“Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.”
“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.”
“But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.”