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Death Quotes by Don DeLillo
- The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and…
- Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
- Isn't death the boundary we need?
- The dead have a presence.
- A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way,…
- When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,…
- I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
- Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
- Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know…
- To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise…
- If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
- Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
- Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until…
- Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything…
- Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
- That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
- There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually…
- Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden