Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Evgeny Morozov

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Edmund Spenser

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Eckhart Tolle

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Harold Brodkey

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Herta Muller

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

John Clare

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

Jennifer Lopez

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Jay McInerney

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Mohsin Hamid

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde