William Hazlitt Quotes
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
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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
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
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I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.
Zadie Smith
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I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.
Jacques Pepin
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
William Hazlitt