Death - Quotes
There are dizzying moments in life when we see everything clearly, when we are aware of our power and our potential, when we see what it is we have been too timid or cowardly to do. These are life’s decisive moments. They come to us unannounced, like death or conversion.
You know how women talk about having babies? This one had an easy delivery, this one had it hard? [...] Death is like that, too.
It seems you'll become the death of me
I suffocate with you when I take in oxygen.
But I just can't stop, don't let me go,
play and hold onto me forever
We are so scared about talking about death that we are letting people die in silence. It is good to talk publicly.
It is not long in historical terms since Christian priests were burning people at the stake if they did not believe that wine turns to blood when a priest prays over it, and that the earth sits immovably at the universe`s centre, or [...] since they were whipping people and slitting their noses and ears for having sex outside marriage [...]. To this day adulterers are stoned to death in certain Muslim countries; if the priests were still on top in the once-Christian world, who can say it would be different?
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The thought of death ought to be a lifelong occupation for every man. But this would be too great a stress for the human psyche. We have to live as if we were immortal.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.