3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura I don’t think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There’s always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
3 December 2020 David Hume Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
3 December 2020 Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
3 December 2020 Thomas Merton Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy 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.
3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
3 December 2020 Paula Poundstone The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.
3 December 2020 John Donne Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
3 December 2020 Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
3 December 2020 Thomas Browne Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
3 December 2020 Alexei Sayle I’ve accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
3 December 2020 Paul Gascoigne The drink? Yes, I’ve had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
3 December 2020 George Osborne It’s normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
3 December 2020 Chanakya As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
