Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit: The bearings are overheating - a minute longer, and the metal is going to melt and start dripping and that'll be the end of everything. I need a quick splash of cold water, logic. I pour it on in bucke...

We

He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.

French

All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.

Indian

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Indian

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Complete Poems and Selected Letters

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Crown of Midnight

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.

Chronic Passions

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Cosmos

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

Death of the Body

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

The Death Cure

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...

The Death Cure

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

The Death Cure

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

A Dirty Job

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

Deathless

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

A Death in Vienna

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Every Man Dies Alone