3 December 2020 Pope Benedict XVI Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
3 December 2020 Adam Ant When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, ‘This ain’t going to last,’ so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
3 December 2020 Paracelsus Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
3 December 2020 Dennis Rodman Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
3 December 2020 Tom Robbins In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
3 December 2020 Fyodor Dostoevsky Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
3 December 2020 Francoise Sagan You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
3 December 2020 Robert Falcon Scott We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
3 December 2020 Emily Mortimer Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death – everybody’s pretending that death doesn’t happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
3 December 2020 Jenny Eclair I think I might actually die of showing off. It’ll be on my headstone – ‘Cause of Death: Showing Off.’
3 December 2020 Michelangelo If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
