967 private quotes tagged death

“Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.” — Suzanne Fields

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“I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.” — Fiona Shaw

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“As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.” — Josh McDowell

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“When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.” — Allen Klein

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“Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.” — Margot Kidder

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“Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.” — G. Gordon Liddy

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“I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.” — Emilio Estevez

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“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.” — Henry Fielding

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“I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.” — John Thorn

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“When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.” — Adam Ant

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“Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.” — John Thorn

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“I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.” — Margot Kidder

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“I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.” — David Ortiz

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“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.” — W. H. Auden

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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” — E. W. Howe

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anais Nin

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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.” — David Sarnoff

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“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

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“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.” — Alice Thomas Ellis

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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” — Carter Burwell

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“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” — Jim Morrison

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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.” — Mary Catherine Bateson

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“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” — B. R. Hayden

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“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.” — Horace

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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” — Jean Cocteau

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