I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.
