Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.
