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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Yeah, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek. You know, Five Finger Death Punch doing 'Mama Said Knock You Out.' It was just really funny for us.
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
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.
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality.
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.
If you want to remain always happy, Always perfect and always fulfilled, Then always keep inside your heart A pocketful of sweet dreams.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
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.
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?