death

"I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man."

"With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again."

"What joy to breathe the scent of open air, | wich dies like the last rays of the sun, | no mortal man has lifted my veil. | I'm neither Muslim, nor Hindu, | nor Christian, nor Buddhist, | I'm not for …"

"In any epidemic... let us suppose five hundred of the sick, taken indiscriminately, to be subjected to one kind of treatment, and five hundred others, taken in the same manner, to be treated in a diff…"

"All of us are mere mortals and must consult. The spectacle of Parliament and the antics of our politicians serve only to distract us from the very real problems that we face as a nation."

"Behind every dish there is death, and people only close their own eyes to it."

"Patrick Henry at Find a Grave"

"Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catche…"

"“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur…"

"Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!"

"Death is psychosomatic."

"It wasn’t a death wish. It was a see-how-close-you-can-get-and-live wish."

"I wanted to look at how people deal with death … Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?"

"Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground."

"Oh," but they say to me, "you take away immortality." I do not. If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed b…"

"The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution."

"From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but…"

"I wended my way to the graveyard this evening," wrote Anne to Gilbert after she got home. "I think 'wend your way' is a lovely phrase and I work it in whenever I can. It sounds funny to say I enjoyed …"

"Leaning into the subject of suffering, leaning into the subject of mortality, was directly therapeutic for me. It wasn’t an intellectual interest or a recreational thought...Getting through my day req…"

"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy."