“I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.”
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“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”
“To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
“Each instant of life is a step toward death.”
“You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.”
“When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”
“Science without conscience is the death of the soul.”
“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.”
“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.”
“But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.”
“For tis not in mere death that men die most.”
“The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'”
“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
“I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.”
“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”
“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.”
“Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.”
“Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.”
“It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.”
“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.”
“When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.”
“I'm not afraid of death.”