"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Death, Time, Thought, Character

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"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Death, Knowledge, Belief, Ambition

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Legacy, Truth, Future, Inspirational

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Death, Success, Being

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Death, Choice, Life, Afterlife

"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Death, Truth, Regret, Power

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Death, Life, Truth, Rules

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

Stephen King, American Author

Death, Truth, Future, Regret, Today

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Death, Truth, Regret, Life, Wisdom

"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Death, Faith, Truth, Power

"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."

Stephen King, American Author

Death, Regret, Today, Truth, Inspirational

Explore more quotes by John Berger

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

Media, Opinion, Past, Post

"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."

Dogs, Self

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Death, Time, Thought, Character

"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."

Being, Dress, Nudity

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

Thought, Being, Compassion, Necessity

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."

Being, Emotion, Envy, Glamour

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Life, Time, Dream, Capitalism

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

Photography, Imitation, Painting