You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: death cooperation together Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. —Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees More about this quote Tags: life fear living death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is there life before death? —Graffito More about this quote Tags: life death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: time death pulse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. —Robert Browning More about this quote Tags: love death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: death equality chess Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: death boredom insurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers." "I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: children death flowers decapitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: death logic thinking reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. —P. G. Wodehouse More about this quote Tags: age death getting old guillotine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again. —Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 More about this quote Tags: crying death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All men think all men mortal but themselves. —Edward Young More about this quote Tags: others death mortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war reality beauty religion facts death blood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email