Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. ”

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. ”

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. ”

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. ”

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful. ”

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way. ”

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left. ”

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. ”

Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such. ”

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets. ”