In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
Sarah Vowell
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
Laura Wade
I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a... →
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings... →
Loudon Wainwright III
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Rufus Wainwright
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her... →
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the... →
Tom Waits