Famous quotes containing the words thackeray, illness and/or death:
“How to live well on nothing a year.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)