Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and m...

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without ...

Reached

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger withou...

Reached

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling ...

Mrs. Dalloway

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unre...

Philip José Farmer

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sou...

Stephen Mitchell

Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting th...

Kate O'Neill

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt...

Alastair Campbell

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his vi...

Albert Camus

Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.

Dutch

Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.

Russian

Death is a giant against whom even the Tsars must draw weapons.

Russian

«Parece maricas» (...) «E era uma pena, porque estava de se barrar com manteiga e comer-se vivo»

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The Collected Poems

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Carmilla

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

The Death Cure

Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb.

The Death of Mitali Dotto

There is no way I am masturbating with a gringo to something as vile and disgusting as worm-rape!

Gigantic Death Worm

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Damien Hirst

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst