"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

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"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

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

"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

Explore more quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."

"Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man."

"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."

"Truth is always a delusion."

"There are thoughts we must not think."

"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

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"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."