“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Dress to Kill (1998)
“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
“They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
“A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
Context: A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye.
For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
“Still, you must know that the fear of death is irrational; death comes to everyone.”
Robert J. Sawyer book Calculating God
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 25 (p. 235)
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 119
Quotes, 1960's, untitled statements in 'Zero 3', (1961)