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John GalsworthyLove has no age, no limit; and no death. 72
Napoleon BonaparteDeath is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. 101
Keith RichardsGood music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.101
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. 101
Saint IgnatiusAmong the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.101
Albert PikeWhat we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.101
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituLife and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.101
bell hooksThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.101
Bertolt BrechtDo not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.101
Bill MaherSuicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' 101
Chiang Kai-shekThe rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.101
Daniel RadcliffeI'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.101
David BlaineI believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.101
Davy CrockettThe enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.101
Dennis MillerThe death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.101
Eliot SpitzerYes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.101
Eugene IonescoNo society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.101
Evelyn Beatrice HallI do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.101
Ezekiel EmanuelChildhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.101
G. Gordon LiddyDefeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.101
George Edward WoodberrySeasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.101
GG AllinDeath is a very important part of life.101
Giacomo CasanovaShould I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.101
Giuseppe GaribaldiI offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.101
Hilaire BellocLoss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.101
Howard ShoreI always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.101
Hu ShihOn the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.101
Isaiah BerlinLiberty for wolves is death to the lambs.101
Karen DeCrowNo matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.101
Layne StaleyKurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.101
Lewis TappanWe will persevere, come life or death.101
Nigella LawsonAnd, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.101
Norman CousinsDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 101
Patricia HeatonChristians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.101
Patrick HenryGive me liberty or give me death.101
Robert De NiroYou'll have time to rest when you're dead.101
Robert FulghumI believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.101
Roz ChastI've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.101
Steve EarleMy objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.101
Suzanne CollinsOne of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.101
Tim KaineI think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.101
Alastair CampbellSo here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.101
Brad ThorIn some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.101
Brandi CarlileYou know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.101
Christine LagardeYou know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.101
Debra WingerI was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?101
Duane MichalsPhotographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.101
Freddie StromaI think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.101
Frederick BuechnerPay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.101
Fritz LangI am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.101
Harold BrodkeyIt is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.101
Harry MathewsI'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.101
John Sherman CooperI don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.101
Josh McDowellNo matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.101
Kat DenningsThere's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.101
Katie PriceAll I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.101
Leos CaraxWhen I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.101
Meghan O'RourkeA death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.101
Paul Tudor JonesMacro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.101
Richard LaGraveneseThe death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?101
Robert EnglundDeath by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.101
Robert M. HutchinsThe death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.101
Salvatore QuasimodoThe poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.101
Scott TurowOn the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.101
Susan ErtzMillions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.101
Thomas BrowneLife itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.101
Tom LehmanTo have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.101
Tryon EdwardsSinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.101
Wendell PierceCulture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.101
Alex CampbellMy death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.101
Arthur KoestlerNothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. 101
Barnett NewmanAny art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.101
Bill PaxtonI'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.101
David GerroldLife is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.101
Eleanor CliftIf you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.101
Elias HicksTherefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.101
Eliot NessYou think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.101
Eydie GormeIt was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.101
Emilie AutumnIt is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?101
Francis CapraI think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.101
Hortense OdlumHow many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!101
John GrishamI'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.101
Jose Ortega y GassetAn 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.101
Lyman BeecherNever chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.101
Madalyn Murray O'HairAn Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.101
Matthew SimpsonWe ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.101
Philip KaufmanWhatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.101
Shekhar KapurI have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.101
SolonLet no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.101
Stanislav GrofWhether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.101
Ahmed Ben BellaI'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.101
Ben Nighthorse CampbellAnd it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.101
Brian CloughDon't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. 101
Buddy HollyDeath is very often referred to as a good career move.101
Cedric RichmondI'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.101
Celia ImrieAnorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.101
Cynthia McKinneyThe situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.101
David ThewlisI don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.101
Dorothy StangThe death of the forest is the end of our life.101
Len CariouI grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.101
Lois McMaster BujoldThe dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. 101
Pau GasolI won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.101
Sheldon WhitehouseWhen we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.101
Thomas Francis MeagherI now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.101
Angelo ScolaThe destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.101
Claudia GrayAt the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.101
James Anthony FroudeWild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.101
Jeff LindsayEverybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'101
Jenny NimmoI had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.101
Paul KurtzThe meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.101
Raymond CarverLife and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.101
Tom FolsomI was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America.101
Toni ServilloI think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.101
Ann Turner'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.101
Arthur Potts DawsonMy food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.101
Bilawal Bhutto ZardariI can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.101
Dawn PowellThe basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).101
Devdutt PattanaikIf you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.101
Ernst Moritz ArndtNothing that is really good and God-like dies.101
Giovanni FalconeHe who doesn't fear death dies only once.101
J. C. RyleThe true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.101
Lincoln DavisI'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.101
Raymond MoodyThe subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.101
Rex HuntFrom birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.101
Ruth Ann MinnerBenjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.101
Stephanie KleinThe times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.101
Thomas KydOh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.101
B. R. HaydenLove and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.101
Brian JonesTo lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.101
Burke MarshallThe death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.101
J. M. CoetzeeLebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.101
Marcia WallaceI'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.101
Mary Catherine BatesonThe timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.101
Robert BoltEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.101
Robert HiggsWe need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.101
Sean TaylorYou can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.101
Shirley BoothWhy is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?101
Stan SakaiA samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.101
Richard EberhartPoems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.101
Roger AngellI knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.101
Stewart AlsopA dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.101
Alvar N. C. de VacaSeeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.101
Anna AkhmatovaIt was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.101
Michael PalmerYou're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.101
Alice Thomas EllisDeath is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.101
Jackie StewartWhen there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.101
Mircea EliadeEvery religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.101
Jacqueline CochranIt comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.101
John AndreAs I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.101
Arthur SchopenhauerThey tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.102
Edgar Allan PoeThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?102
Leonardo da VinciI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.102
J. Robert OppenheimerI am become death, the destroyer of worlds. 102
John Maynard KeynesIn the long run we are all dead.102
John WayneCourage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. 102
Joseph StalinDeath is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. 102
Al GreenI have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.102
Ashley MontaguThe idea is to die young as late as possible. 102
Bobby ScottThe death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.102
Brennan ManningSuffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.102
Bryan ProcterDeath is the tyrant of the imagination.102
Colin FarrellLife is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.102
Douglas BrinkleyHow one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.102
Edvard MunchFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. 102
Edwin M. StantonAll persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.102
Emanuel SwedenborgThat every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.102
EnyaI have had death threats from people with fixations.102
George MacDonaldHow strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.102
Hedy LamarrI don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.102
Irma S. RombauerA pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.102
James DeanIf a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.102
Miguel de UnamunoA man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.102
Morrie SchwartzEverything that gets born dies.102
Omar N. BradleyBravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. 102
Otto FrankWe all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.102
Paula PoundstoneThe wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.102
Philip YanceyThe world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'102
Philippe PetitDeath frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.102
Rafael CruzYou know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!102
Robert WinstonWomen of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.102
Sam LevensonIf you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.102
Stanley HauerwasOur hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.102
TecumsehWhen your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.102
Terrell OwensLife and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.102
Thomas MannIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. 102
Warren ZevonI'll sleep when I'm dead.102
William ShatnerDivorce is probably as painful as death.102
Yamamoto TsunetomoWhen confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.102
Yitzhak RabinWe do not celebrate the death of our enemies.102
Annie DillardJust think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.102
Annie LennoxDying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.102
Ben KingsleyIf your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.102
Brian BlessedYou can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.102
Criss AngelYou can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.102
Frank TiplerIf any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'102
Ken JeongMedicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.102
Martin O'MalleyThe death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.102
Maurice SendakWhen I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.102
Simon McBurneyMy experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.102
William GoldmanLife isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.102
Alex CampbellI, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.102
Amanda HearstI started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.102
Bill ShanklySome people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.102
Emily Greene BalchThese wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.102
Georg BuchnerThe death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.102
Georg HermesDeath is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.102
George Pierce BakerWhat then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.102
Julius StreicherThere must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.102
Michael Sheen'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.102
Patrick MarberA couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.102
Tom MisonThe really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.102
Alain RobertI enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.102
Ben VereenThe death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.102
Edgar Rice BurroughsDeath, only, renders hope futile.102
Edmund SpenserSleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.102
Ellis PetersDeath, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.102
George RyanI support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.102
Georges RouaultThe 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.102
Janet RenoI was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.102
Tite KuboFor me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.102
Christopher KochEven a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.102
David SarnoffWe cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.102
Doug DavidsonFather's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!102
Morning StarI would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.102
Ralph PetersWhen I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.102
RJ MitteMy sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.102
Charles MackayThere is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.102
Myron ScholesSometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.102
Raymond MoodyNo doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.102
Russell M. NelsonContemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.102
Aaron HueyI want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.102
Anne BancroftLife is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.102
Duffy DaughertyWhen your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.102
Julianna BaggottI am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.102
Samuel FooteDeath and the dice level all distinctions.102
James F. ByrnesToo many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.102
Julie BenzCause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.102
Jupiter HammonThere are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.102
Susan HaywardMy life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.102
Anna AkhmatovaAll has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.102
Jonathan ShapiroSometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.102
Montgomery CliftThe closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.102
Joseph HallDeath borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.102
John BaconWe will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.102
Jonathan LarsonIn these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.102
Julian Lincoln SimonThe increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.102
Kanye WestNothing in life is promised except death.103
Henry RollinsI have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.103
Pope FrancisEven today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.103
Terry PratchettThe ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.103
W. H. AudenDeath is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.103
Angus YoungI'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.103
Corazon AquinoI would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. 103
Eliot SpitzerOur criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.103
G. Gordon LiddyThey were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.103
George FoxI saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.103
Germaine GreerAll societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.103
Havelock EllisPain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.103
Lewis ThomasA lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.103
Nancy ReaganI believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.103
Robert SmithEverything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.103
Roger WatersNot the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.103
Ronda RouseyAt home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.103
Ruth RendellI think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.103
Saul AlinskyOnce you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.103
Thomas Babington MacaulayAnd how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?103
Zebulon PikeIf success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.103
Albert BrooksWhen I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.103
Alison JacksonWhen Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.103
Brendan I. KoernerAccording to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.103
Christopher FryBetween our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.103
Drew Gilpin FaustWhen I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.103
Emily MortimerLots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.103
Hugh SideyThe prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.103
Kerry KingWhen we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.103
Kevin RichardsonFor example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.103
Klaus FuchsAt that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.103
LucanThe gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.103
Meghan O'RourkeLoss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.103
Peter ToshTo have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.103
Richard FlanaganI think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.103
Salvatore QuasimodoAfter the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.103
Scott CaanIf you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.103
Thomas BrowneDeath is the cure for all diseases.103
Tryon EdwardsEvery parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.103
Bernhard LangerIt's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.103
John CusackWhen applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.103
Miyamoto MusashiGenerally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.103
Muqtada al SadrI wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.103
Seth LloydNothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.103
Suzanne FieldsThe death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.103
Ted DekkerThe good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!103
Carol P. ChristThe Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.103
David ChaseOnce the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'103
Harold KushnerI am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.103
James BelushiI don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.103
Kim ElizabethWe will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.103
Liu XiaoboHatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.103
Maureen O'HaraJohn Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.103
Al GoldsteinSince fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.103
Elizabeth FishelComparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.103
Lucius AcciusA man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.103
Jennifer ArmintroutIt's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.103
Salva Kiir MayarditThe death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.103
Siegfried SassoonSoldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.103
Aaron HueyWar is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.103
Alan ClarkIn the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.103
Citium ZenoNo evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.103
John YooOnce the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.103
Matthew GreenFling but a stone, the giant dies.103
Jenna McCarthyWhat do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.103
George EliotOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. 104
Christopher McCandlessI need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.104
Alphonse KarrIf we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.104
Anne HathawayWe assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.104
Anthony HopkinsWe are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.104
Ben ShapiroThanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.104
Dean SmithIf you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.104
Debbie Wasserman SchultzTo be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.104
Hanna RosinThe classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.104
Harriet Ann JacobsDeath is better than slavery.104
Hayao MiyazakiSometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'104
Ian MckellenWhat's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?104
Lynn RedgraveAnd yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.104
Marlene DietrichGrumbling is the death of love.104
MosesSee, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.104
Nat King ColeFor years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.104
Patrick HenryIs life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!104
Pope Benedict XVINot all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.104
Robert BenchleyA real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.104
Robert Green IngersollWhen the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.104
Zane GreyWhat makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.104
Abbie HoffmanBecome an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.104
Barbara CorcoranA complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.104
Brooke ShieldsMy father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.104
David CarradineWhy would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.104
David MitchellIf the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.104
Emmylou HarrisAnimals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.104
Henry Anatole GrunwaldIn medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.104
Jan HusI hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.104
Katharine Lee BatesSurely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.104
Loudon Wainwright IIIThe big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.104
Paul GascoigneThe drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.104
Peter MullanThere are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.104
Rosalind RussellLife is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.104
Bill ShanklyFootball (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.104
Bret HarteMan has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.104
Brett HullI'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.104
Donna ShalalaBut for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.104
Hugh LeonardMy father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.104
Jeff GoodellOne of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.104
Juliette BinocheFor me, habit is just a synonym for death.104
L. Neil SmithI propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.104
Louise ErdrichI got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.104
Polly ToynbeePeople want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.104
Dustin DiamondIf I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.104
Georges BatailleEroticism is assenting to life even in death.104
Janet RenoI had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.104
Russell LynesA truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.104
Sonny RollinsI have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.104
Millicent FawcettWhat he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.104
Jeremy GranthamThe language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.104
Jean RacineA 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.104
Jean RenoSometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.104
Jack LemmonDeath ends a life, not a relationship.104
Steve JobsNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.105
Sun TzuRegard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.105
Thomas PaineI love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.105
Tupac ShakurI don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. 105
Angela DavisHad it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.105
Hannah ArendtIn order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.105
Brad PittPerhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.105
Dorothy L. SayersDeath seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.105
Edvard MunchDeath is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.105
Giada De LaurentiisTo a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.105
Hans Urs von BalthasarBut the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.105
Ian FlemingYou only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.105
Kirk CameronMarriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.105
Mary ShelleyAnd now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.105
Nicolas ChamfortLiving is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.105
Peter BenchleyAlmost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.105
Richard LouvIf war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.105
Rick PerryCrucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.105
Saint BernardWho is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?105
SenecaJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.105
Stephen LeacockI detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.105
Steve EarleWe're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.105
TecumsehLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.105
Thomas MannThe only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.105
Vance HavnerYou haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.105
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartI thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.105
Alison GopnikWe fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.105
Carlos FuentesI believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.105
Dasha ZhukovaI believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.105
Geezer ButlerToward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.105
Keith HensonPeople can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.105
Leonard SusskindLife is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.105
Maurice MaeterlinckAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.105
Steven Curtis ChapmanI did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.105
Tony SnowWell, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.105
William Gilmore SimmsThe dread of criticism is the death of genius.105
Berenice AbbottDoes 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.105
Don KardongRunning at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.105
Gerard De NervalThe first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.105
John OrtbergSin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.105
SolonCall no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.105
Dolph LundgrenI think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.105
Amelia BarrThat is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.105
Jane GreyGod grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.105
Mark TwainThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.106
Elie WieselI decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.106
Harriet TubmanI had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.106
Lord ByronDeath, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.106
Terry PratchettI believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.106
SophoclesNot even old age knows how to love death.106
Antonin ScaliaIf you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.106
Daniel BerriganBecause success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.106
Ernestine RoseAgitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.106
Fidel CastroA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.106
Gwyneth PaltrowMy life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.106
Hilaire BellocStatistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.106
Horace MannBe ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. 106
Huey NewtonMy fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.106
Lauren BacallI was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.106
Martin HeideggerIf I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.106
Nancy GibbsThe leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.106
Paul StanleyWhen you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.106
Ram DassPain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!106
Sam HarrisReligion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.106
Sebastian JungerI don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.106
Vincent NicholsIn Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.106
William LawDeath is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.106
Yamamoto TsunetomoDeath seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.106
Yasser ArafatOur law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.106
Yuvraj SinghWhen one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.106
Bruce DickinsonApart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.106
Cecil BeatonAmericans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.106
Jessamyn WestFaithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.106
Mary RoachI don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.106
Peter AbelardAre you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?106
Tammy BruceWhen the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.106
Carmen Dell'OreficeMy dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.106
John GrishamSometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.106
Jonathan DavisWhen I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.106
Stanislav GrofFor any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.106
Carol P. ChristIn Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.106
Charles M. BlowThe first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.106
Errol FlynnAny man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.106
John WebsterIntegrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.106
Josh HollowayWe're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.106
Elie WieselMan, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.107
Kurt CobainIf you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.107
Woody AllenIt is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.107
Indira GandhiIf I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.107
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.107
Jack KerouacI hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.107
John SteinbeckIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.107
Alfred North WhiteheadNot ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.107
Angela CarterNothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.107
Elisabeth Kubler-RossIt is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.107
Fulton J. SheenHearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.107
Hugh HefnerI'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.107
John DonneAny man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.107
Paul SimonAs long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.107
Peter BenchleyA human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.107
Robert Falcon ScottWe are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.107
Russell CroweI'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.107
Sam HarrisAs a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.107
Steve EarleThey say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.107
Steven PinkerIf you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.107
William PennFor death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.107
Anne SextonDeath's in the good-bye.107
Daniel H. WilsonOver the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.107
Dennis QuaidWhen you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.107
Jeanne MoreauAs long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.107
Lady GregoryMany a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.107
Maria ShriverMy mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.107
Michael Eric DysonYou cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.107
Michel HouellebecqI tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.107
Rob Sheffield'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.107
William C. BryantAnd suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.107
Alexander ChaseLovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.107
Carter BurwellDeath is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.107
Jean GiraudouxThe brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.107
Juliana HatfieldPuerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.107
Stanislav GrofThere is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.107
Ronnie James DioSaddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.107
Jean AnouilhTo say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.107
James StephensLife runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.107
Khalil GibranFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. 108
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.108
Emily DickinsonBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.108
Vladimir NabokovLife is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.108
Jackie KennedyEven though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.108
Bill ParcellsIf you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.108
Charlotte BronteI feel monotony and death to be almost the same.108
Enzo FerrariOne must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.108
Fran LebowitzThere is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.108
George WhitefieldTake care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.108
HerodotusDeath is a delightful hiding place for weary men.108
Jerry GarciaDeath comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.108
John Greenleaf WhittierWhen faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.108
Leonard NimoySome words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.108
O. J. SimpsonI could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.108
Paul LyndeIf I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.108
Sachin TendulkarIf efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.108
Thomas WolfeIn Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.108
William CowperAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.108
Dan SavageUltimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.108
Jan HusHe that fears death loses the joys of life.108
Jose SaramagoDeath is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.108
Mary Baker EddySin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.108
Patrick SwayzeThe longer your life goes on, the more death you face.108
James CaanNo matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.108
John PiperThe best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.108
Stanislav GrofThe knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.108
Coco ChanelGuilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.109
Florence NightingaleThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.109
Leo BuscagliaDeath is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.109
Nikos KazantzakisAll my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.109
Simone de BeauvoirIt is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.109
Thomas HobbesThe disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.109
Alfred NobelI intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.109
Billy CrystalYou have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.109
Clare BaldingYou hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.109
Damien HirstI was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.109
Dan AykroydAm I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.109
David ByrneThe true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.109
Edvard MunchSickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.109
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSmiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.109
Heinrich HeineCommunism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.109
Hugh LaurieHumility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.109
Jean de la BruyereThere are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.109
John WesleyI felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.109
Ken KeseyLoved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.109
Stella YoungI am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.109
StendhalTrue love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.109
Thomas FrankThe great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.109
Alexandre DumasIt is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.109
Alexei SayleI've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.109
Anne BronteA man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.109
Dean KoontzLike all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.109
Jan HusI, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.109
Joni Eareckson TadaNone of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.109
Lena HorneDon't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.109
Leo DurocherBuy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.109
Linda McCartneyMy mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.109
Lorna LuftInstead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.109
Whittaker ChambersTragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.109
Adam ClarkeHe who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.109
Mary SchmichI couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.109
Steve JobsRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.110
Anais NinLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.110
Nikos KazantzakisLife is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.110
Pope John Paul IIHumanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.110
EuripidesNo one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.110
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.110
Elisabeth Kubler-RossThose who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.110
Ella Wheeler WilcoxIt has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.110
Eugene IonescoBeauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.110
Friedrich DurrenmattSomeone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.110
Harry BrowneLibertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.110
Jerry GarciaI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.110
Nick CaveI don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.110
NostradamusThe sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.110
Red SkeltonHis death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.110
Rose KennedyI tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.110
Stanley HauerwasA martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.110
Walter BagehotNo real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.110
A. R. RahmanMy mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.110
Elias CanettiHe who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.110
Georges BernanosHell, madam, is to love no longer.110
R. D. LaingMadness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.110
Sloane CrosleyAre there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.110
Arlo GuthrieThe death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.110
Marcus AureliusIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. 111
Nelson MandelaThere is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.111
Anais NinPeople living deeply have no fear of death.111
Billy GrahamNo matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.111
EpicurusDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.111
Karl PilkingtonThe poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.111
Leonardo da VinciOur life is made by the death of others.111
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. 111
Joel OsteenYou can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.111
Michel de MontaigneIf you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.111
MichelangeloDeath and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.111
Alexander SmithDeath is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.111
Barry GoldwaterWhere is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?111
Courtney LoveI like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.111
Ed SheeranAs far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.111
Elisabeth Kubler-RossPeople after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.111
Gloria SwansonLife and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.111
Hassan NasrallahIsrael should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.111
Ingrid NewkirkBulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.111
Jean BaudrillardDeep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.111
Jesse VenturaI've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.111
Kirk HammettMetallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.111
Miguel de UnamunoMan dies of cold, not of darkness.111
Serj TankianI am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.111
Stanley HauerwasTime is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.111
Elias CanettiThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.111
Luigi PirandelloWhoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!111
Mickey RourkeWhen I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'111
Albert EinsteinIntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. 112
Aldous HuxleyA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.112
Anne FrankI simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.112
Billy GrahamRacism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.112
Carl SaganPersonally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.112
Ernest HemingwayThere is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.112
Leonardo da VinciAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. 112
VirgilIt is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.112
Joseph StalinThe death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. 112
Cate BlanchettWe've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.112
Ivan TurgenevNature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.112
Lewis MumfordWithout fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.112
MahaviraAttachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.112
Mary ShelleyLife and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.112
Paula DeenI'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.112
TecumsehPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.112
Wangari MaathaiIt's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.112
Wendell BerryIt is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.112
Wilson MiznerThose who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.112
James CameronWhat are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?112
Michael LeunigIt's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.112
Stanislav GrofA number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.112
Benjamin FranklinIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. 113
Clint EastwoodWhether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.113
EpicurusIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.113
Jean-Jacques RousseauNo true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.113
Leonardo da VinciWhile I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. 113
Ida B. WellsIn fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.113
Angela DavisWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.113
J. R. R. TolkienMany that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.113
Joseph StalinDeath solves all problems - no man, no problem. 113
Brian WilsonMy mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.113
Dorothy DayOur faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.113
Edith WhartonOld age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.113
Eric CantonaIf you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.113
Henry Van DykeSome people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.113
Horatio NelsonMy character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.113
Imran KhanA country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.113
James HetfieldJust like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.113
Jodie FosterI feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.113
Mike HuckabeeMost single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.113
Peter SteeleThere are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.113
Ray KurzweilDeath gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.113
Rufus WainwrightI think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.113
Saint AmbroseGod, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.113
Steven SeagalI have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.113
Stevie Ray VaughanSome of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.113
Tom WaitsI'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.113
John OrtbergArt is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.113
Isaac AsimovLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. 114
Jim MorrisonDeath makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. 114
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinDeath is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.114
Charles de MontesquieuThere should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.114
D. H. LawrenceCreation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.114
Elbert HubbardDie, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.114
Johnny CashOf emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.114
Joseph StalinIf any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.114
Julius CaesarI love the name of honor, more than I fear death.114
Al SharptonThe horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.114
BodhidharmaLife and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.114
Che GuevaraWhenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.114
Elisabeth Kubler-RossIt is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.114
Gertrude SteinIt is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.114
Graham GreeneWe are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.114
Guru NanakThere is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.114
Helena Bonham CarterShe looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.114
Horace MannGenerosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.114
John DonneDeath be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.114
Jon StewartMcVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.114
Lewis MumfordMisery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.114
Mitt RomneyDependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.114
Philip JohnsonAll architects want to live beyond their deaths.114
Rollo MayCreativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.114
Thomas MannFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.114
Tom RobbinsIn Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.114
Wendell BerryThe fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.114
Daniel BarenboimTradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.114
Donny OsmondI believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.114
Matthew ArnoldSpare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.114
Patty DukeThe panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.114
Abraham VergheseMy deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'114
Max HeindelAt the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.114
Katharine HepburnDeath will be a great relief. No more interviews.115
Benito MussoliniInactivity is death.115
Julius CaesarWhich death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.115
P. J. O'RourkeIf we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.115
Clarence DarrowI have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.115
Daniel BooneWe were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.115
David DuchovnyPeople think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.115
Edvard MunchDisease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.115
Edward YoungOur birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.115
Elizabeth IMonarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.115
Gustave FlaubertA friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.115
Isabel AllendeAll stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.115
Jorge Luis BorgesTo be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.115
Marjane SatrapiFor me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.115
Marlene DietrichWhen you're dead, you're dead. That's it.115
Mel BrooksLook, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.115
ParacelsusOnce a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.115
J. G. BallardPeople think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.115
Jean GiraudouxI'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.115
Woody AllenThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?116
Aung San Suu KyiWar is not the only arena where peace is done to death.116
Johnny CashMy father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.116
Joseph StalinOne death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. 116
Marie CurieThe death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.116
Alfred AdlerDeath is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.116
Anne LamottThe earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.116
Guru NanakI am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?116
Jack KevorkianThe Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.116
Jean CocteauYou've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.116
Jesse JacksonA man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.116
Judy GarlandWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.116
Nathaniel HawthorneWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.116
Robert Green IngersollI would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.116
Rush LimbaughThe message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?116
Stokely CarmichaelWe were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.116
Wendell BerryTo hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.116
Will SelfDeath, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.116
Charles SpurgeonWhat an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.117
Douglas MacArthurI've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.117
Sigmund FreudThe goal of all life is death.117
Abu BakrThere is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.117
AeschylusOf all the gods only death does not desire gifts.117
Donald RumsfeldDeath has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.117
Elizabeth WarrenBankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.117
Heinrich HeineSleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.117
Kirk CameronMarriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.117
Kristin ArmstrongI never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.117
MoliereWe die only once, and for such a long time.117
Morihei UeshibaWhen life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.117
Robert Anton WilsonBelief is the death of intelligence.117
Stevie Ray VaughanI hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.117
Jean AnouilhUntil the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.117
Jim MorrisonPeople fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.118
Leo TolstoyAll violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.118
Thomas A. EdisonThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.118
Adlai E. StevensonCommunism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.118
E. W. HoweSome men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.118
Elisabeth Kubler-RossI've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.118
Garrison KeillorHumor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.118
Jim CarreyIt is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?118
Sammy Davis, Jr.To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.118
UnknownEverybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.118
Willa CatherI shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.118
BjorkFeminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.119
Frank SinatraI'm gonna live till I die.119
Elizabeth IMy mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.119
Gary JohnsonDo I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.119
HoracePale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.119
Max LucadoOne of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.119
Michael MooreWe as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.119
Norman CousinsThe tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.119
Ram DassWorking with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.119
Ramana MaharshiThe body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.119
Michel de MontaigneIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.120
CherI'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.120
ShakiraThe truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.120
Tori AmosI think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.120
Umberto EcoWe have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.120
J. B. PriestleyIf we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.120
John OrtbergAt the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.120
Benjamin FranklinSome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 121
Anais NinI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.121
Jimi HendrixIt's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. 121
Liam NeesonTo be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.121
Marina AbramovicYour ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.121
Quentin TarantinoI look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.121
Viggo MortensenI'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.121
BuddhaWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. 122
David HumeNothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.122
Thomas Paine'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.122
W. C. FieldsDrown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?122
VirgilTo have died once is enough.122
John KeatsI have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.122
Bill HicksWe all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.122
Elisabeth Kubler-RossI was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.122
Henry MillerIn the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.122
Jean CocteauSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.122
Jean de la BruyereMan has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.122
John CleeseI was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.122
Myles MunroeDeath can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.122
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.122
Jean PaulThe darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.122
Elie WieselBecause of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.123
Paulo CoelhoI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.123
Terry PratchettIn the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.123
Thomas MertonDeath is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.123
Tupac ShakurIf you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.123
Annie BesantThe sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.123
Henry B. EyringWe are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death.123
Patti SmithI've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.123
Charles de GaulleIt is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.124
Fyodor DostoevskyMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.124
George CarlinI'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.124
MichelangeloIf we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.124
Morgan FreemanIf you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.124
Billy CorganYou know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.124
Erik EriksonHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.124
Deepak ChopraWe are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.125
Jean-Jacques RousseauAbsolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. 125
Douglas HortonDeath is the final wake-up call.125
Elisabeth Kubler-RossWatching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.125
Herman HesseThe call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.125
Viggo MortensenI'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.125
AristotleTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.126
Gloria SteinemIt's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.126
Leo BuscagliaThe minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.126
T. S. EliotI had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.126
Dag HammarskjoldIn the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.126
Elisabeth Kubler-RossDeath is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.126
Jean CocteauAfter the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.126
Jesus ChristI am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.201
Jim MorrisonThe appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.201
Rabindranath TagoreDeath is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 201
Bill HicksThere is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.201
Brigitte BardotWe have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?201
Eddie VedderPeople on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!201
Herman MelvilleOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.201
Liam NeesonBut I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.201
Max LucadoIf we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.201
Robert KiyosakiFor something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.201
Jean PaulDeath gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.201
SocratesDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings. 202
EpictetusIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.202
Ludwig WittgensteinDeath is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.202
Napoleon BonaparteIt is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.202
Bear GryllsThe line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.202
Elisabeth Kubler-RossIt is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.202
Kevin SpaceySuccess is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.202
Rush LimbaughWe're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.202
Joss WhedonI don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.202
Sun TzuProhibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.203
William ShakespeareCowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. 203
Albert CamusFor centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.203
Ayn RandWhen I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.203
Edgar Allan PoeThe death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.203
Emily DickinsonLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.203
Terry PratchettFantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.203
Thomas PaineHe who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.203
Dennis PragerThe essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.203
David LynchStories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.203
Ellen G. WhiteWe are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.203
Umberto EcoThe thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.203
Albert CamusMen are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.204
Arthur SchopenhauerEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.204
Soren KierkegaardBecause of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.204
Terry PratchettIt's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.204
Thomas AquinasIf forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.204
Angelina JolieThere's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.204
Sitting BullIf we must die, we die defending our rights.204
Albert EllisI hope to die in the saddle seat.204
Annie BesantDeath consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.204
Joan RiversWith plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.204
Albert CamusThere will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.205
Kurt VonnegutThis country is being managed to death, being public related to death.205
William Butler YeatsI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.205
Abu BakrCursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.205
Lee IacoccaTalk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.205
Samuel ButlerLet us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.205
Helen KellerDeath is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.206
SocratesOrdinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.206
Christopher HitchensWell, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'206
W. E. B. Du BoisI believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.206
William BlakeArt is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.206
John KeatsLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.206
Erich FrommMan always dies before he is fully born.206
Hedy LamarrI don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.206
Jennifer LopezThere are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.206
Samuel ButlerTo himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.206
Anais NinLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.207
Arthur SchopenhauerSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.207
Noam ChomskyThere's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.207
P. J. O'RourkeAlways read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. 207
Deepak ChopraThe symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.208
Dolly PartonMine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'208
Sun TzuThe art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.209
Chuck PalahniukIf death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?209
Albert CamusWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.210
John LydonMove to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!210
Tennessee WilliamsMendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.210
Brigitte BardotDeath was like love, a romantic escape.210
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.211
Les BrownWhere do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.211
Michael MooreOne thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.211
Robert Green IngersollIn the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.211
Robert H. SchullerProbably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'211
BuddhaTo 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.212
Jean-Paul SartreOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.212
ChanakyaAs long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?212
Dave BarryWhat I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.212
W. Somerset MaughamDeath is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.212
ConfuciusDeath and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. 213
Mark TwainI didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. 213
Groucho MarxI intend to live forever, or die trying. 213
Leonardo da VinciMan and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.213
Ambrose BierceDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.213
HoraceFew cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.213
PlatoKnow one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.214
Theodor AdornoNormality is death.214
Martin Luther King, Jr.If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.216
Deepak ChopraAs long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.216
George CarlinDeath is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.216
Virginia WoolfSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.216
VoltaireIt is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.217
Bob MarleyI don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.217
Terry PratchettOver the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.218
Maya AngelouIf we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. 219
Eckhart TolleThe more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.219
D. H. LawrenceThe human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.219
Martha BeckNo one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.219
Robert H. SchullerLife is but a moment, death also is but another.219
BuddhaEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. 220
Khalil GibranIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.220
Marcus AureliusDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.220
Stephen HawkingI was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.220
Martin Luther King, Jr.If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. 221
Ayn RandAchieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.221
George SantayanaThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.221
Will RogersThe only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.221
Dave BarryThe leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.221
Steven PinkerThe European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.221
W. C. FieldsWhen we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.222
Marianne WilliamsonThe 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.222
George EliotIn every parting there is an image of death.223
ConfuciusIf we don't know life, how can we know death? 224
Bob DylanYou hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.224
George CarlinAt a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.224
Woody AllenI'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.224
D. H. LawrenceDeath is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.224
Marcus AureliusDeath is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.225
George EliotDeath is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.225
W. H. AudenThe words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.225
Bryant H. McGillBirth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.226
Billy GrahamNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.301
Eckhart TolleFear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.301
Walt WhitmanNothing can happen more beautiful than death.301
Arthur SchopenhauerAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.303
Francis BaconMen 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.303
Francois de La RochefoucauldOn neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.304
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.305
Theodore RooseveltAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. 305
Albert CamusIn order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.305
Walt WhitmanAnd I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.305
Friedrich NietzscheThe 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'307
William ShakespeareThe stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.307
Woody AllenI am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. 307
Chuck PalahniukIf nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.307
Ernest HemingwayMadame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.308
Woody AllenI don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.308
Alice WalkerLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.309
James E. FaustOur greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.309
Blaise PascalThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.310
Joel OsteenThe death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.310
Joseph B. WirthlinNot even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.311
Ernest HemingwayFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.312
Thomas CarlyleFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.314
Carl JungShrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.315
VoltaireThe safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.317
Bertrand RussellThe slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.318
Billy GrahamDeath wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.318
Lord Byron'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.318
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIn India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. 319
Mahatma GandhiLet us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.320
Bob DylanDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.320
Khalil GibranDeath most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.321
Dalai LamaDeath means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.322
Winston ChurchillI am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.322
Samuel JohnsonPrepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.323
Billy GrahamI look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.325
Lao TzuLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. 401
Terry PratchettPrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.401
George EliotWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.402
Ernest HemingwayOnce writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.404
Ralph Waldo EmersonGood is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.405
PlatoNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.406
Martin Luther King, Jr.A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.408
Napoleon BonaparteYou must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.408
John WoodenI'm not afraid to die.409
Albert EinsteinThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.412
Friedrich NietzscheGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?412
Steven WrightSometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'417
P. J. O'RourkeIn our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.419
Ralph Waldo EmersonDeath comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.421
William ShakespeareDeath is a fearful thing.422
Mark TwainDo the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. 423
PlatoMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?424
Mark TwainThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. 425
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA useless life is an early death.507
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.514
Friedrich NietzscheLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.519
Oscar WildeOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.602
William ShakespeareThe valiant never taste of death but once.609
Steven WrightWhen I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.617
William ShakespeareI were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.625
William ShakespeareAnd why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!711
Mahatma GandhiFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.724

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