The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
I've had to listen to candidates tell me they are the most wonderful thing since the invention of sliced bread, and it bores me to death. It also makes me doubt that they are actually any good at all - plus it's an attitude that would never fly in the culture I've created in my company.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
