Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
I love Oprah to death.
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.
The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
