"Death is what makes life fun." — Billy Collins
"Death is what makes life fun."
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57 Quotes by Billy Collins
Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site.
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
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It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…
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Bugs Bunny is my muse.
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More Death Quotes
This quote is filed under Death Quotes,
one of 13,020 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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