“Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
Robert Byrne (1928–2013) American chess player and writer
As quoted in The Fourth—And by Far the Most Recent—637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, p, 518
“Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
Robert Byrne (1928–2013) American chess player and writer
“Death is nature’s way of staying in charge.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English writer
Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
Misattributed
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in Brezhnev Reconsidered (2002)by Edwin Bacon, Mark Sandle, p. 99
“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Abide as the Self
“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”
Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot
Source: 'Salem's Lot
Malcolm X The Ballot or the Bullet
Source: The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference