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Quotes About Death

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.
~ Patti Smith
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
~ Sam Altman
When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.
~ Will Smith
Our ultimate finishing line in life is death! Whilst you have life, work hard and trust God!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~ Stanislav Grof
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.
~ Paul D. Boyer
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
~ Bodhidharma
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
~ Erica Jong
What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
~ S. J. Rozan
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
~ Tupac Shakur
The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
~ Tupac Shakur
My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated
~ Tupac Shakur
i will live by the gun and die by the gun
~ Tupac Shakur
Zoe refers to the aggregate. Bios accommodates the notion of death, that each life has a beginning, middle, and end, that each life contains a story. Zoe, wrote Kerenyi, "does not admit of the experience of its own destruction: it is experienced without end, as infinite life.
~ Twyla Tharp
Then I shared a favorite scripture, one that has guided me through life: The power of life and death lie in the tongue. "You can speak life or you can speak death," I went on. "I chose to speak life into my situation. I chose to use my imagination to take me higher. Not just in this life, but higher in Christ.
~ Tyler Perry
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
~ Tyron Edwards
La mort seule – la sienne propre comme celle des autres – permet d'atteindre l'absolu : en sacrifiant sa vie, on prouve qu'on chérit son idéal plus qu'elle.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.
~ Tzvetan Todorov