Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I've had death threats, if you can imagine. ”

I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need. ”

I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer. ”

I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief. ”

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world. ”

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame. ”

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf. ”

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing. ”

Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies. ”

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice. ”