There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
Death, only, renders hope futile.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
Death by starvation is slow.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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.
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
