“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.”
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“The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.”
“Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.”
“If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.”
“You've gotta know what death is to know life!”
“I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.”
“I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.”
“Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.”
“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.”
“I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.”
“I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.”
“My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.”
“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.”
“The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.”
“We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.”
“And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.”
“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?”
“It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.”
“Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.”
“Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.”
“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?”
“He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.”
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
“The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.”