"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."

Death, Father, Play, Writing

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Legacy, Truth, Future, Inspirational

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Death, Life, Nature, Wonder

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Death, Idols, Want

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

Death, People, Virtue, Feet

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Death, Shadow

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Death, Life, Eyes, Light

"Death is not a choice, even for the suicide."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Death, Fate, Control, Life

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

John Milton, English Poet

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"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"Death is not a choice, even for the suicide."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."

"A thing well done is worth doing."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

"The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent."

"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."

"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."

"I've always believed in survival."

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."