I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation – I don’t care what religion it is.
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ‘tis.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
The death of the forest is the end of our life.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That’s the reality, not George Bush’s revisionist history!
I don’t fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.
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.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation – the one is life, the other death.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
I’m not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I’m not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
