#death

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#come #compared #death #ego #extremely

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anything #away #because #death #fear

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#believe #boiler #death #destiny #earth

The first requisite for immortality is death. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#first #immortality #requisite

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#been #concept #death #i #never

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death. ↗

— John Linder

#being #citizens #death #elections #even

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. ↗

— Courtney Love

#consumed #daily #daily life #death #even

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#could #couple #death #family #flop

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. ↗

— Ed Markey

#cause #causes #cigarettes #common #common knowledge

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#death #desire #expend #great #great hope