We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.
Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11, it remains the most poleaxeing public event, news so shocking it made me shake, and drove everything else from my mind for days.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.
Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.
I eat death threats for breakfast!
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Everything that gets born dies.
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.
I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.
I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Biography lends to death a new terror.