Amusing Ourselves To Death Quotes

#1. True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

Sidney Poitier

#2. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

Neil Postman

#3. The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.

Chris Hedges

#4. I thought it was a novel."
"It is."
"What's it about??"
"You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog."
"This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said.
"Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

Marcel Theroux

#5. If your destiny is glorious, a protracted journey filled with ups and downs is ahead of you. Sit down and strategize to outlast your challenges.

Assegid Habtewold

#6. Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. I think the truth is black-and-white.

Nancy Grace

#8. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

John Milton

#9. Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.

Shannon Hale

#10. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

John Piper

#12. The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

Gloria Feldt

#13. Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Mary Roach

#14. Nothing in the world sounds worst than that, to be here and safe.

Dave Eggers

#15. Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing.

Alan Dean Foster

#16. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

#17. What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

Anton Chekhov

#18. You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

Darren Shan

#19. When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant! ... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Leo Tolstoy

#20. If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!

Michael Cudlitz

#21. Oh, certainly, 'The Wings of Death' is not amusing," ventured Mrs. Leveret, whose manner of putting forth an opinion was like that of an obliging salesman with a variety of other styles to submit if his first selection does not suit.

Edith Wharton

#22. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

#23. No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her brother. she had nothing whatsoever to talk about. Just sat there like a stick, sipping tea."
"I didn't know sticks could sip tea.

Tessa Dare

#24. I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

James May