The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.
We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America – and the world.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa – wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought ‘Oh great, death.’ But it was just tension and tiredness.
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what’s happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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.
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg’s importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It’s made me more compassionate.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.
Obviously death is a theme I’m fascinated by.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
