Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Lif...
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.
I wanted blood to signify life, not death.
Death and life were just adjacent verandas.
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
Nothing in life was as ugly as death.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
