3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
3 December 2020 David Byrne The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
3 December 2020 Norman Cousins Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
3 December 2020 Gloria Swanson Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how.
3 December 2020 Carl Lewis I’m not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what’s going on in the media. I’m supposed to be the typical amateur who’s 22 and scared to death and can’t believe he won the Olympics.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
3 December 2020 John Cusack When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
3 December 2020 Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
3 December 2020 Alexander Smith Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
3 December 2020 Eric Cantona If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
3 December 2020 Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it’s part of my dramatic viewpoint. I’m not sure why exactly. Maybe I’m drawn to it as a story element.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
