3 December 2020 Seneca Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
3 December 2020 Virgil It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.
3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
3 December 2020 Marcia Wallace I’m in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer’s, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
3 December 2020 Yasser Arafat Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
3 December 2020 Thomas Francis Meagher Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
3 December 2020 R. D. Laing Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
3 December 2020 Josh McDowell As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
3 December 2020 Theodore Parker The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.
