Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ”

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. ”

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. ”

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. ”

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living. ”

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway. ”

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. ”

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ”

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ”

The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. ”