I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
‘Death at an Early Age’ was about racial segregation in Boston. ‘Illiterate America’ was about grownups who can’t read. ‘Rachel and Her Children’ was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction – there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
One 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.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards.
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
The 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.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Human life moves only in one direction – toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren’t as bad as they’ve become for you.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
You 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.
