Top 1200 Death Star Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God!

In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

Death frames the high wire. But I don’t see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

The only way through death is death itself.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.