3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
3 December 2020 Bodhidharma And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
3 December 2020 George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof If consciousness can function independently of the body during one’s lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
3 December 2020 Layne Staley Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter I don’t think kids have a problem with death. It’s us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
3 December 2020 Carter Burwell Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
3 December 2020 Nancy Reagan I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
3 December 2020 Heather Mills The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
3 December 2020 Mariah Carey Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
