Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ”

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you. ”

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. ”

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. ”

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people. ”

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. ”

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ”

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. ”

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. ”

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. ”