What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110
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I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951