Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that. ”

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. ”

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. ”

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ”

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. ”

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ”

You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant. ”

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. ”

Death is a distant rumor to the young. ”

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery. ”