3 December 2020 Mary Catherine Bateson The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun Emigration is no longer a solution it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open.
3 December 2020 John Ralston Saul Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
3 December 2020 Martha Beck No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
3 December 2020 John Hodgman When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it’s going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
3 December 2020 Dean Smith If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
3 December 2020 Joseph Stalin If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis When I listen to music, I don’t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ‘Let no one be called happy till his death’ to which I would add, ‘Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.’
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
3 December 2020 Hugh Leonard My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I really enjoy theater. I just went to see ‘Death of a Salesman,’ and it knocked me on my ass.
3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he’s not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
3 December 2020 Tom Waits But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
3 December 2020 John Cleese I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
3 December 2020 Angus Young I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
