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How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.
Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.