My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
I'm always on the verge of death in my head.
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
People make relegation out to be a fate worse than death but that's nonsense. If the infrastructure is right, clubs can bounce back.
He that fears death loses the joys of life.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.