Life & Death Sayings

The sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils.

If my kid did that [jump off a bridge because they're sad], I'd be pissed. What a fucking moron! I wouldn't even give him a funeral.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

The problem of society is not how to abolish evil, but how to make it productive.

When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The death of the author is the birth of the reader.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The only way to be free is to accept the necessity of our own death.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death.

The torch of doubt is lit at the moment of our birth and is not extinguished until the moment of our death.