"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas | Life and Living | 2 bookmarks

"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

Day, Clarence | Enthusiasm | 2 bookmarks

"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."

Darrow, Clarence | Death and Dying | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Bardot, Brigitte | Death and Dying | 2 bookmarks

"First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying"

Unknown, Source | Life and Living | 3 bookmarks

"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

Wilde, Oscar | Martyrdom | 5 bookmarks

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. | Freedom | 7 bookmarks

"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."

Howe, Edgar Watson | Trust | 4 bookmarks

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

Shakespeare, William | Agents | 1 bookmarks

"The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it."

Twain, Mark | Silence | 3 bookmarks