We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Death can’t be considered because, if you’re afraid to die, there’s no room in your life to make discoveries.
I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
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.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
The fundamental human truth underpinning ‘Ox Mountain Death Song’ is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.
I’ve been watching ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I can’t wait for ‘Bored to Death’ to come back, it’s one of my faves.
We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur – in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day.
You bowl according to situations – whether at the death or at the beginning.
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America’s most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
I’ve said this over and over, but I’ll say it a million more times – I’m concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we’re losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
Integrity of life is fame’s best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don’t want to be told how to define my future.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
