Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden youre free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. – Saul Alinsky
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isnt worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because its life or death. – Morgan Freeman
Im one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If youre doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. – Anthony Hopkins
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, dont make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond ones death. – Rollo May
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, its much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly
Im sick to death of people saying weve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, weve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. – Angus Young
Dont be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, its just death. – Lena Horne
Kurt and I werent the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. – Layne Staley
Im Irish. I think about death all the time. – Jack Nicholson
Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. – Julius Caesar
Ive looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. – Douglas MacArthur
Death doesnt affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesnt concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. – W. Somerset Maugham
A tragedy need not have blood and death its enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. – Jean Racine
Theres nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didnt abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. – H. G. Wells
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people wont be put to death. – Paul Simon
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But thats the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldnt live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it. – Marilyn Manson
And as long as youre subject to birth and death, youll never attain enlightenment. – Bodhidharma
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You cant do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. – Keith Richards
