“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.”
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“All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.”
“My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.”
“The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.”
“Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.”
“I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.”
“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
“The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.”
“You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.”
“The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.”
“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.”
“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”
“As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.”
“The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.”
“I'm working myself to death.”
“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”
“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”
“I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.”
“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”
“Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.”
“She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.”
“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.”
“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”