3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
3 December 2020 Che Guevara Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
3 December 2020 John James Audubon To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
3 December 2020 Kevin Spacey Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
3 December 2020 Gilbert Parker Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
3 December 2020 Steven Morrissey When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
3 December 2020 Angela Davis Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
3 December 2020 Daniel Boone We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
3 December 2020 Simon Travaglia Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen.
3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – I’d be bored to death.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
3 December 2020 Anna Deavere Smith People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it.
