Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ”

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. ”

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ”

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. ”

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ”

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ”

I love women. I love 'em to death, but sometimes you have to be careful. Sometimes these women out here play games, too. ”

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives. ”

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man. ”

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. ”