Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. ”

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ”

I love women to death. ”

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ”

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. ”

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. ”

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. ”

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ”

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ”

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. ”