“A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!”
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“Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.”
“In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.”
“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”
“Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.”
“No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.”
“There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.”
“Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.”
“Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.”
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
“I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.”
“I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.”
“Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.”
“There is nothing glamorous about death.”
“My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.”
“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”
“The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.”
“Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.”
“If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.”
“The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!”
“I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.”
“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.”
“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.”