I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Nothing in life is promised except death.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.
The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
