I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick. Laura Wade bitecompensatecreative share on social
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. Oliver Joseph Lodge bodydeathexistence Change image and share on social
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. Lydia Lunch americandeathdesire 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
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. Laurence Fox accessdeathfather Change image and share on social
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde deathgoodlive Change image and share on social
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. Elijah Cummings americanblackcarry Change image and share on social
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. Eckhart Tolle affectannihilationaspect share on social
Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death. Eliezer Yudkowsky deathdefeatend Change image and share on social