Common Quote by Arthur Koestler

“Because our Savior lives, we do not use the symbol of His death as the symbol of our faith. But what shall we use?…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

— Hilda Doolittle

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope…

— Anonymous

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the…

— William Baziotes

“Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it. As for me, I substitute the act…

— Clarice Lispector

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

— Mario Benedetti

“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know we cease…

— Jorge Luis Borges

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

— Mark Twain

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

— Paul Krassner

If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it…

— D. H. Lawrence

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love…

— Erich Fromm

“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which…

— Mary Ruefle

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and…

— Brendan Behan

A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

— Sherry Argov

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us…

— Frank Herbert