3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
3 December 2020 Ovid A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
3 December 2020 Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can’t tell your parents that.
3 December 2020 Robert Benchley I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but then I’m in no hurry.
3 December 2020 Jerry Garcia Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
3 December 2020 David Ortiz I start thinking about life after death. I’ve got to quit thinking about it because it’s very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don’t feel like you want to be alive, so I don’t like to get all quiet.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
3 December 2020 Jane Smiley Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
3 December 2020 George Santayana For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
3 December 2020 Leonardo DaVinci As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
3 December 2020 Adam Clarke He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr. To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Calment Death doesn’t frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
