“I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.”
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“Failure too is a form of death.”
“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.”
“I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my a-s.”
“I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.”
“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.”
“The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.”
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.”
“I'm more afraid of marriage than death.”
“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.”
“I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?”
“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.”
“Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.”
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.”
“I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.”
“Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.”
“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.”
“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.”
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
“The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.”
“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.”