He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.
If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
[death]. . . the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.
What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.
The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.
Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death…. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
And die with decency.
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of. . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know. ' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.