"At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth."

-- Peter Ustinov

#Death Quotes #Age Quotes #Birth Quotes

“Don't peak in high school.”
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”

Source : Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.”
“Everyone here contributes to win the games, so there is no pressure on any one player.”
“If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.”
“Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.”
“A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.”
“A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.”

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