If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
There is no more final end than death.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
