It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem concorporationdeath Change image and share on social
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. Charles Lindbergh deathearthmolecule Change image and share on social
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. Imran Khan achieveaidcolonialism Change image and share on social
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. Phyllis Schlafly appropriationbudgetcongress Change image and share on social
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty. Loretta Lynch deatheffectivepenalty Change image and share on social
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. James Hillman childconditiondeath Change image and share on social
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. Michael Sheen bigdangerousdeath share on social
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 ageaughtdeath Change image and share on social
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell deathdevourdoom Change image and share on social
I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. Susan Vreeland absorbartbathe share on social