I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.
In the face of death, we will continue to choose and sanctify life.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Society's preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.
Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
