Death Sticks Quotes

#1. The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

#2. Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

Jurgen Moltmann

#3. Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

Holly Estil Cunningham

#4. Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

Michael Baden

#5. Be good to others, if you wish the world to be good with you.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#6. A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

John Dufresne

#7. Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

Dennis Miller

#8. If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Andy Stanley

#9. Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Jelly Roll Morton

#10. If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

Ernest Becker

#12. If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

Shaquille O'Neal

#13. One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. Sex is for anyone; the aftermath is for lovers.

Harlan Coben

#15. I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.

Amy Bloom

#16. Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

Jimmy Fallon

#17. Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Michael Thomas Ford

#18. If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. And there, surrounded by death above and below, he sticks his tongue out and tastes the sweetness of life.

Danny Scheinmann

#20. Death just seems to follow some of us, don't it? Death's been following me for years. It's easy to spot your own kind. That kind of sorrow you can't just wash away; it sticks to you. And people, they can tell. They can feel it.

Leslye Walton

#21. What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?

Steve Vernon

#22. We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Brene Brown