Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. ”

The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death! ”

I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has chosen to leave at the top of their game with a legacy of 25 years of success. ”

People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele. ”

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ”

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. ”

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ”

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ”

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics. ”

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. ”