#death

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#comes #course #death #gifted #him

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death. ↗

— Charles Ferguson Smith

#death #good #hear #me #shall

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #no problem #problem #problems #solves

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #millions #statistic #tragedy

I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#better #cause #come #death #doing

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

The interwoven spheres and vines ran along the bottom. I'd done some research, and I'd found this motif everywhere. These overlapping circles were ancient, tracing back to Pythagorean geometry--geometry, a measure of the world. In more mystical terms, the shape had always evoked tghe place where world overlap: dreaming with waking, death with life, the visible with the unseen. [p. 362] ↗

— Kim Edwards

#death