Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ”

Biography lends to death a new terror. ”

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. ”

In New York, people are pretty cool, and you don't catch a lot of grief. But in certain spots, man, it's over. If I stand in the same place for more than 20 minutes or 10 minutes or something, there'll be 40 people standing there, all screaming something different. ”

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. ”

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. ”

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ”

I don't want to hear about my death. ”

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. ”

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software. ”