#death

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#another #death #decisions #eyes #found

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#fact #hide #hides #nature #she

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ↗

— Dean Smith

#death #every #game #going #life

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ↗

— Socrates

#death #greatest #human #may

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ↗

— Socrates

#apply #death #directly #dying #ordinary

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#death #go #graduate #harvard #high

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#become #death #fences #get #higher