Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. ”

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have. ”

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands. ”

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. ”

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat. ”

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father. ”

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you. ”

The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. ”

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ”

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. ”