While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Date of birth: 1452-04-15
Date of death: 1519-05-02
Quotes number: 51
Nationality: Italian
Profession: Artist
I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
