Owen King Quotes

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

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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
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• 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

• 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
  • Life
  • Believe
  • 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

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

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

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Help
  • Death
  • Leaving

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• 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

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• 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
  • American
  • Death
  • Success

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Crush

• As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rule
  • Saint
  • Pretend

• I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

  

  Owen King
  • Death