Artist Quote by Roger de Grey

“Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty, Your free-time…

— Prophet Muhammad (PBUH

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are…

— Boyd K. Packer

I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music.…

— Arthur Jafa

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy…

— Nancy Travis

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

— H. G. Wells

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

— Kerry Gleeson

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

— Philip K. Dick

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

— Benedict Cumberbatch