Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself. . . . Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.
I am so far from being a pessimist. . . on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.
Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?
But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.
Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program and I realized that a lot of young people that don't do we'll academically, it's not that they don't have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it, it's just that they weren't motivated to learn. They weren't interested in school so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like yo this is life or death.
Arsenal have been literally passed to death.