An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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.
I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.
I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
When I listen to music, I don’t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he’d never existed. Me and my brothers weren’t even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.
I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don’t do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
The ‘Course in Miracles’ says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they’re all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they’ve made their peace with death.
Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they’re not trying to escape.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America – and the world.
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don’t want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
We’ve enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don’t discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn’t considered morbid or antisocial. But that’s totally gone.
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
I always get the ‘goth girl’ thing because I wear black. But I don’t worship death.