Sylvia Plath

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a...

Henry Rollins 56

Death

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it....

Daniel Naroditsky 73

Death

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand 67

Death

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster 73

Death

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson 55

Death

I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion...

Lemmy 54

Death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

John Keats 52

Death

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards 72

Death

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey 52

Death

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry 62