I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A ‘New Hope’ who steal the plans for the Death Star.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent’s army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It’s a beautiful, bloodless war.
My mother’s death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I’ve grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don’t exist materially.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual’s experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone – Death!
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film… but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death – and everything else is open to discussion.
Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
