Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ”

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. ”

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. ”

Visva-Bharati has a glorious legacy. ”

I have a legacy which I carry from my media career. That is why you will find that everybody will have an opinion about me. ”

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. ”

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class. ”

When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever. ”

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. ”

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. ”