You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, ‘Come on, you know, there’s life and there’s death and there is love.’ And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
It’s not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it’s illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It’s a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody’s face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It’s made me more compassionate.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept – and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind’s feelings, you’ll survive.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Death does not exist.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they’ve made their peace with death.
As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
Many cats are the death of the mouse.
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
I think, more than anything else, my dog’s death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
I don’t believe in the term ‘guilty pleasure,’ because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don’t know, taking gratification in some stranger’s ghastly death or something – which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
