967 private quotes tagged death

“I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my a-s.” — Jason Reitman

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“'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.” — Michael Sheen

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“The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.” — Roger Waters

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“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.” — Andre Breton

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“The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.” — Suzanne Fields

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“People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.” — Jessica Simpson

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“My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.” — Mary Schmich

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“Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.” — Ingrid Newkirk

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“In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.” — Jonathan Larson

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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.” — Alastair Campbell

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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” — Jim Morrison

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“The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.” — Bill Gates

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“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.” — E. M. Forster

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“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.” — Xun Zi

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“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.” — Buffalo Bill

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“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.” — Al Goldstein

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“Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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“The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.” — Cynthia McKinney

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“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” — Quintus Ennius

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