At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it. Oliver Reed amazeathleticclub Change image and share on social
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. Yann Martel deathhumanindividual Change image and share on social
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Luigi Pirandello bearcharactercreate Change image and share on social
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold crydeadduty Change image and share on social
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. Lili Taylor academyawardcompromise share on social
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive. Larry Kramer activismalivedeath share on social
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. aggravateblowcharacter share on social
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. Erica Jong begindeathero share on social
There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death. Elena Anaya acceptdeathgeneration Change image and share on social
Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping. Enrique Pena Nieto deathkidnapmexico Change image and share on social
