3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade ‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
3 December 2020 Fiona Shaw I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted.
3 December 2020 Al Goldstein Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
3 December 2020 Peter Steele I stay way from that area, and there’s only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
3 December 2020 Susan Ertz Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
3 December 2020 Layne Staley Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
3 December 2020 Brendan Behan I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
3 December 2020 Imran Khan A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood – no more – to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she’s also a bit of a fatale. She’s the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West 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.
3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
