3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian I hate to say this, but I’ll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
3 December 2020 Sam Snead If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
3 December 2020 John Thorn Planning to play: that’s what saving for retirement is today – and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
3 December 2020 Mercedes McCambridge I’ve always had bronchitis. I’ve been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that ‘death panels’ would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it’s hard to beat Sarah Palin’s ignorant nattering on the subject.
3 December 2020 Joseph Stalin The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
3 December 2020 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
3 December 2020 Ryan Gosling I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don’t think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It’s an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It’s this thing that’s looming, and you can control it.
3 December 2020 Ron White Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
3 December 2020 Nigella Lawson And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
3 December 2020 Kate Atkinson The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
3 December 2020 Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else’s. But it’s inevitable, so you’d better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau As long as you don’t make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that’s condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
3 December 2020 Margot Kidder I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative.
3 December 2020 Cher I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia.
3 December 2020 Giancarlo Esposito It’s certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
