Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
In 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.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
Good 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.
Well, 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.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
In Mexico, you’re close to death all the time.
Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Any 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.
No 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.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then – my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you – because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
They 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.
I always mention stacking the dishwasher – any opportunity. But it’s the consequences – it’s the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.
I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
I 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.
Not 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.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Death 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.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
People 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!
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life.
Death 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.
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
My 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.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
The 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.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
All 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.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
An unused life is an early death.
Marriage 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.
The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
The 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.
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
We 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.
I 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.
If 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.
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
You have only to see what became of my father’s will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
If 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.
