“When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.”
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“Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.”
“If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.”
“A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.”
“Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.”
“In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.”
“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”
“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.”
“The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”
“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.”
“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”
“I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.”
“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.”
“I looked Death right in the face.”
“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.”
“Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.”
“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
“We see death constantly on film.”