That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
I don't believe in life after death. But I still enjoyed the idea of doing a movie that would portray that collective dream, that collective need. Like flying saucers are a collective need for people who need to believe in flying saucers. You don't need to believe in flying saucers to do a movie about Martians or flying saucers.
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
In every parting there is an image of death.
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Death is a very important part of life.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.