The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,. . . that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.
The National Party is a dying party.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself
There's a buzz to failing and not dying.
It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)
Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Live only for what you know in your heart is worth dying for.
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.