Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
My 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.
Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it’s also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
War 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.
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We’re a nation of debtors.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
A 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.
I wouldn’t mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Drake’s my little brother; I love him to death, and he’s family-oriented.
Where 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?
Suffering, 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.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they’re all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
What is life about? Two things: love and death.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
Death is a very important part of life.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
I 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.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Death is just life’s next big adventure.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
A 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.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire’s rewards.
The 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.
My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it’s common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it’s my family’s spirituality, so I don’t want to keep it secret.
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay.
You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‘death by cupcake.’
My 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.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
I 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.
If 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.
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father’s law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I’m not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
The 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.
If you look at the movie ‘Belly,’ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.
Communism 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.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Once you’ve stared death in the face, every day is a good day.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
I’ve always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It’s important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it’s convenient or inconvenient, whether it’s perfect or imperfect.
