Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Death is a very important part of life.
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.
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.
I'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.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
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.
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.
One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
But 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.
Do 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.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Let 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.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
The 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.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
I 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.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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