Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charles Sanders Peirce

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Edward James Olmos

It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ?

Edith Sitwell

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

David Hume

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

David Hume

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.

David Hume

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

August Wilson

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Antonin Artaud

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Michel Onfray

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Ian Mckellen

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

Truman Capote

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).

William Shakespeare

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

Leos Carax

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.

William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

William Shakespeare

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

William Shakespeare

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

Richard Smalley

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

William Shakespeare

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

William Shakespeare

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

William Shakespeare

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

When we first got back I was scared to death that he might have been trapped in there. I was so happy to hear that he didn't stay during the storm.

Bryan Procter

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Carl Jung

The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

Wayne White

world will take little notice today that the state of Texas executed someone who represents the very reason we still need the death penalty.