"Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?"

-- Hildegard Knef

#Life And Death Quotes #Guarantees Quotes #Fear Of Death Quotes

“Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.”
“I am so addicted to crystals, itâ€™s like a sickness. Iâ€™ve spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left.”
“I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.”
“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”
“False hope really makes you cynical.”
“The first duty of life is to live.”
“In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.”

Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
“Kindness is virtue itself.”

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