A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“because a surfeit of sexual activity at an early age was believed to lead to an early death.” — Sylvia Barbara Soberton Copy Share Image
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early… — Mindee Arnett Copy Share Image
Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
The shock of her desertion may have contributed to his early death or perhaps he had simply never learned to feed himself. — Albus Dumbledore Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson,… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of you the bittersweet echoes infixed forever… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going… — Erskine Bowles Copy Share Image
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death, lest… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Rick James was a force to be reckoned with. He was an underground success here but huge in the U.S. - people… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
“In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who… — Bob Avakian Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience:… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“He turned to Isa, “I’m sorry. I’m frustrated and while I couldn’t be happier for you and Cash, your closeness just reminds… — Gina Watson Copy Share Image
“The intense focus on weight loss suggests that obesity must be uniquely deadly, but that’s far from true. Low fitness, smoking, high… — Sandra Aamodt Copy Share Image
“Perfect Joy (excerpts) Is there to be found on earth a fullness of joy, or is there no such thing? . .… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There were several paintings to admire, one of them very fine indeed. Many were urban, industrial landscapes. Paul was generous with his… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth,… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
“Cheap objects resist involvement. We tend to invest less in their purchase, care, and maintenance, and that's part of what makes them… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“The Kingly Man My master said: That which acts on all and meddles in none - is heaven . . . The… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Lastly,” Lye said,”we must wash your luck. When souls queue up to be born, they all leap up at just the last… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Earth can be bad for your health too. On land, grizzly bears want to maul you; in the oceans, sharks want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image