#death

And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for longer than we have ever realized. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#death

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant. ↗

— O. J. Simpson

#dad #date #dates #death #find

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. ↗

— Red Skelton

#death #ed #ever #first #first time

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around. ↗

— Grace Slick

#back #being #come #death #i

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here. ↗

— Morning Star

#death #die #freedom #here #home

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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death. ↗

— Howard Stern

#being #death #i #like #thinking

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty #come #death #desires #dreams

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization