Quotes About Perspective

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

In ten years time I'll be… (dead) sixty.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.