“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
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“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”
“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”
“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.”
“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.”
“A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.”
“Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.”
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.”
“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”
“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”
“I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.”
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”
“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.”
“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to 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.”