I really don't want the highlight of my life to be my…

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

— Anonymous

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

— Leo Tolstoy

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

— Subhas Chandra Bose

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially…

— Stevie Smith

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

— E. M. Forster

“It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you…

— Siddartha Mukherjee

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

— Holly Hunter

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”

— E.M. Forster

All games contain the idea of death.

— Jim Morrison

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

— Simon McBurney

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

— John Green

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.…

— James Hillman

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt