Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • Socialism
  • Overcome

• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Power
  • Death
  • Words

• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Death
  • Sex

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

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• 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
  • She
  • Help
  • Nature

• We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Death

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Death
  • Struggle
  • Old

• I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Up
  • Minds

• I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Writing
  • Serious
  • Driving

• As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Happy

• First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Country
  • Action

• Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Death