Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself. ”

When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films. ”

I don't believe in an afterlife. ”

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. ”

Since the shock of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's death, I have been reflecting on what made him so special. To my mind, it is simply this: Kofi Annan was both one of a kind and one of us. ”

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ”

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. ”

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. ”

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. ”

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being. ”