Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 25)

"You shall hear a good account of me or of my death"

"Death is a very important part of life"

"The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son"

"I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death"

Leon Redbone, Musician

"On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time"

Nusrat F. A. Khan

"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"

Dean Smith, Athlete

"I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work"

Benjamin Bratt, Actor

"My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!"

Meg Cabot, Author

"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism"

Norman Tebbit, Statesman

"Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death"

Dennis Quaid, Actor

"The aims of life are the best defense against death"

Primo Levi, Scientist

"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to"

Enid Bagnold, Author

"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return"

Otto Frank, Celebrity

"Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death"

Lars Ulrich, Musician

"I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot"

James Spader, Actor

"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Better be killed than frightened to death"

Robert Smith Surtees, Novelist

"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness"

George Fox, Clergyman

"I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death"

Walter Reisch, Scientist

"The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come"

Shepard Smith, Journalist

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament"

Paul de Man, Critic

"There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed"

Jim Jones, Criminal

"Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures"

John Phillips, Musician

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death"

Rupert Holmes, Composer

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death"

Julia Ormond, Actress

"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety"

Joe Moore, Celebrity

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches"

Harry Mathews, Author

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Author

"Many cats are the death of the mouse"

Kaspar Hauser, Celebrity

"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

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