Quotes of: Life-and-death Keyword

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Simon McBurney

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sam Snead

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Theodore Bikel

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

Tea Obreht

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Tullian Tchividjian

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Val Kilmer

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Viggo Mortensen

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

William Greider

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

Gemma Arterton

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.

Fran Lebowitz

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Georges Bataille

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.

Confucius