Famous Quotes

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Adrienne Rich on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

  Buddha on Death

• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

  Albert Einstein on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Adrienne Rich

• "The moment of change is the only poem."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."

• "The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."