“Birth was the death of him.”
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death
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“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.”
“It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.”
“And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.”
“Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.”
“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”
“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.”
“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.”
“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”
“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”
“Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.”
“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”
“We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?”