„The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.“

„The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.“

—  Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

As quoted in Art Smart (2007) by Alan Bryce

„Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?“

—  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791

Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Varianta: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).

„What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?“

—  Katie MacAlister Author 1964

Zdroj: Zen and the Art of Vampires

„With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, kniha The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Kontext: With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down in my skull. Out of one of my temples the sun rises, and into the other the sun sets.
The stars shine in my brain; ideas, men, animals browse in my temporal head; songs and weeping fill the twisted shells of my ears and storm the air for a moment.

„The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

„The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.“

—  Chögyam Trungpa, kniha Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

„Man as such is nature sick unto death, derailed, run off the rails through a fascination with a lethal Thing.“

—  Slavoj Žižek, kniha The Sublime Object of Ideology

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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)

„True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.“

—  Christopher Pike American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954

Zdroj: Black Blood

„Just another taste of pleasure.“

—  William Fitzsimmons American musician 1978

Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Shattered

„If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure that wealth can give.“

—  Tryon Edwards American theologian 1809 - 1894

Zdroj: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 623.

„It is Cezanne's feeling that determined the form of his pictorial structure. It is his pictorial structure that gives off his feeling. If all his pictorial structures were to disappear from the world, so would a certain feeling..“

—  Robert Motherwell American artist 1915 - 1991

Zdroj: 1940s, Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946), pp. 38-39

„It is Cézanne's feeling that determined the form of his pictorial structure. It is his pictorial structure that gives off his feeling. If all his pictorial structures were to disappear from the world, so would a certain feeling.“

—  Mark Rothko American painter 1903 - 1970

Zdroj: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 38-39

„And all the world is football shaped,
It's just for me to kick in space,
And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste,
And I've got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime,
Trying to take this all in,
I've got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime,
Trying to taste the difference,
'Tween the lemons and limes,
The pain and the pleasure,
And the church bells softly chime.“

—  Andy Partridge British musician 1953

"Sense Working Overtime".
English Settlement (1982)

„A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.“

—  Matthew Stover, kniha Blade of Tyshalle

(VIII.4) Del Rey, p. 282
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

„The most sensational of all the sick literary lives was that of Maupassant, who died mad at forty-three and whose hatred of God, man and nature - manifested in literary productions which give us immense pleasure: how is that to be explained?“

—  Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993

spring from a kind of mother fixation as well as a terror of the cold. He was a bull of a man much given to boats and riparian dalliance, but he had bad circulation. He had other things too, including a Chinese-style priapism which enabled him to copulate, usually in public, six times in a row, the secret being his failure to detumesce. This, of course, like acne and the common cold, can be a symptom of tertiary syphilis, which Maupassant certainly had.
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

„The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.“

—  Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert writer from France 1647 - 1733

Zdroj: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 172

„Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.“

—  Loraine Despres Novelist/screen writer 1938

Zdroj: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

„My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death…“

—  Osamu Tezuka Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928 - 1989

„A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.“

—  Jean Racine French dramatist 1639 - 1699