Brushes Quote by Joan Didion

I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would…

— Philippe Petit

When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

— Gary Krist

Push back, touch the ground kill it with it, rain it all around, kill it with it.

— Alison Hinds

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

— Epictetus

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on…

— Margaret Atwood

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

— Ian Dury

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

— Dan Quayle

But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits…

— Suzanne Collins

When you shed this mortal coil then watch the magic.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

— Anonymous