Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human
trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of
our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems,
taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples,
mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to
deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we
have.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American
Author
When
one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend
is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to
mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
-- Anna Letitia
Barbauld
1743-1825, British
Author
I
really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills
because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony
and know people would photograph me lying dead
below.
-- Brigitte Bardot
1934-, French Film
Actress
To you
who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the
world!
-- Clive Barker
American Author
