A Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Death persecutes before it executes.

Cynthia Ozick

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Before Death

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Cynthia Ozick
American - Novelist
Born: April 17, 1928

Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the killers of her husband and stepson, she didn't actually pull the trigger herself. You know, she has a point. I think we should let her be able to hire the person who executes her, and not do yourself in! How's that, doll? Yeah! Get it over with quick, maybe Charlize Theron will sign up to play you.

Dennis Miller

I've suffered quite a lot, to the point where I've experienced death. Years before I wasn't fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.

Fela Kuti

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Jimmy Cannon

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

Bruce Lee

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

Ray Bradbury

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

Brandon Sanderson

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.