“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
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“I like death. I'm a big fan of it.”
“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.”
“In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.”
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”
“Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.”
“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.”
“When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.”
“Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.”
“Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.”
“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”
“I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.”
“I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.”
“You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.”
“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”
“He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.”
“To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.”
“It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'”
“You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.”
“I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.”
“I don't want to hear about my death.”
“The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.”
“Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.”
“Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.”