Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology. ”

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. ”

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ”

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ”

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ”

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ”

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. ”

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. ”

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ”

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. ”