Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not...… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. ” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
