Death Quotes
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Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times. SeattlePi.com (May 17, 2002).
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
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We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.
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This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
