“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

Source: 'Salem's Lot

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex." by Stephen King?

Stephen King733

American author 1947

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 235

“The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.”

Jacob M. Appel book The Biology of Luck

The Biology of Luck (2013)

“Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IX, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

“Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.”

Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader

Ideal Family and Ideal World http://www.unification.net/1982/820606.html (1982-06-06)

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“There are only two subjects that matters, one is sex and the other is death, what else we could talk about it. And most the cinema talks all the time about sex and death. And my cinema deals with sex and death so… ¿what's the problem?”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

Interview with El Tiempo in Bogotá, Colombia. October 2008 http://www.eltiempo.com/media/produccion/greenaway/#4 <br class="br">Interviews

“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

Baruch Spinoza book Ethics

Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Ethics (1677)

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Sleeper (1973)

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Stephen King733

Related quotes

Related topics