#death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#advice #affair #dreary #dull #nothing

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #ceased #concern #dead #death

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

#also #being #beyond #childhood #creativity

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#anywhere #crash #death #go #hate

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#anyway #death #enough #get #got

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#death #men #should #their

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#christ #death #find #form #freedom

Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. ↗

— Alan Minter

#boxing #deaths #injuries #none #serious

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political