Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. ”

Leaving a legacy behind is huge. ”

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ”

I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. ”

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules. ”

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain. ”

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. ”

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. ”

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. ”

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind. ”