Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 17)

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair"

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive"

Mel Brooks, Comedian

"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none"

Mel Brooks, Comedian

"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?"

Tony Randall, Actor

"I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Grumbling is the death of love"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death"

Marie Dressler, Actress

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"The dread of criticism is the death of genius"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"There is nothing glamorous about death"

Roger Moore, Actor

"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old"

Peter Straub, Writer

"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread"

Rebecca H. Davis

"Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death"

Kit Williams, Author

"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"An answer is always a form of death"

John Fowles, Novelist

"There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death"

Henry Reed, Writer

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life"

Corazon Aquino, President

"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

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