Quotes with death-bed

Quotes 621 till 640 of 811.

  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Meredith The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Frank Dane The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • George Orwell The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Bratt The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Will Rogers The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Mann The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Howard Nemerov The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Mark Twain The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
    Source: Telegram naar Associated Press (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Carol Shields The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
    Source: De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008)
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bobby Rush The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
    Bobby Rush
     
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Larkin The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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