Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're Wi...
Madame Blanc: We must get rid of that bitch of an American girl. Vanish! She must vanish! Make her disappear! Understand? Vanish, she must vanish. She must die! Die! Die! Helena, give me power. Sickness! Sickness! Away with her! Away with trouble. De...
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and playe...
He’d never heard of a demon with freckles before.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.
For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?
It takes a day to fall in love and a lifetime to forget.
Two conclusions follow, die a death, live a death.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Believe that you are someone worth saving.
Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.
Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.
Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
