“It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.”
Letter to Robert Bridges (1 September 1885)
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
…sogar daß ihm auch wohl Philosophen, als einer gewissen Veredelung der Menschheit, eine Lobrede halten, uneingedenk des Ausspruchs jenes Griechen: »Der Krieg ist darin schlimm, daß er mehr böse Leute macht, als er deren wegnimmt«.
As quoted in Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources (1987) by Howard P. Kainz, p. 81
Eternal Peace (1795)
“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) Soviet poet
"Hunting a Hare"; translated by W.H. Auden, p. 13.
Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace
“You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
As "Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr" in The Man with Two Brains (1983)
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”
Iain Banks book The Wasp Factory
Source: The Wasp Factory
“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Mercy
“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
