Walter Benjamin Quotes
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.Walter Benjamin
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
Taya Kyle -
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan -
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 -
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran -
Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
Caitlin Doughty -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
Patrick Macnee -
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Babe Paley -
Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann -
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey -
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells -
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons -
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
Kat Dennings -
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus -
'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
Frances Conroy -
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
Harry Bridges
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields -
For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.
Jodie Evans -
I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.
Josh Schwartz -
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann -
The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
William Blake -
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin