Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

Dog Tags

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

The End of Forever

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

The Elementals

Life’s just a sacrifice, a ransom We pay to Death for Love to save, Which turns to be as great as handsome To get a blessing from the grave.

Elfineness

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Empress

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu

Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.

Everautumn

So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

The Flaxen Femme Fatale

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

The Farseekers

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

The Fault in Our Stars

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

First Among Sequels

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

The Fault in Our Stars

We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.

The Forgotten Warrior

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

The Guns of August

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

The Graveyard Book

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

God's Daughter

Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.

The Golden Day