Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. ”

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ”

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer? ”

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour. ”

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living. ”

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. ”

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ”

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. ”

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief. ”

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue. ”