Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

Albert Einstein

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Albert Einstein

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

Alfred Kazin

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Suzanne Isidor

It's great. It's hard to see her in orange and black, but she's a great friend to all of us and it will be fun.

Michael Bonnette

It was kind of a friend of a friend thing.

Christy Setzer

It seemed unusual to us that Sen. Stevens would be interested in this mine in particular. He's been no friend to environmentalists.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Jessica Mitford

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Dale Williams

He only swung once and stepped back, ... His hands were at his side.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

J. K. Rowling

Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—

Chip Taylor

We can get our hands dirty, and we can have fun.

Richelle Mead

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.