But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
There is nothing glamorous about death.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
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.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
