Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

Something Rotten

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

The Sirens of Titan

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

The Shadow of the Wind

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

A Stranger Is Watching

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

A Taste for Death

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint.

Til Death

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning...

The Twain: Poems of Earth and Ether

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Tuck Everlasting

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

The Thin Executioner

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Only Love

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

The Orchardist

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Orlando

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Orthodoxy

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Orígenes

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.

Pretty in Black

Death didn’t just limit itself to stealing your heart, it went after everything that fed your soul, too.

Phoenix Broken

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

Poppy Done to Death

Heartbreak , death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.

Past Heaven

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Paula

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

Pompeii