Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the 'gospel' or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the 'gospels', the narratives of Our Lord's life and death, were composed later for the benefit of those who had already accepted the . ...

C.S. Lewis

Yoda: Premonitions, premonitions. These visions you have... Anakin Skywalker: They are of pain, suffering. Death. Yoda: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know? Anakin Skywalker: Someone. Yoda: Close to you? Anakin Skywalker: Yes. Yoda: Careful yo...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Joshua: Here! Water lily! Lilia: My name is Lilia. Joshua: To me you are a lily, and I want water. Lilia: Joshua. Joshua, I thought you'd never come down. Joshua: Water before love, my girl. Lilia: Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst? J...

The Ten Commandments

There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant ...

Aleksandar Hemon

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

City of Glass

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Choke

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?

Clean

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

In Conversation

The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.

Chasing Odysseus

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]

Death in August

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.

Death Bringer

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

Death Bringer

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

Death Before Daylight

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

The Denial of Death

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

Death at Victoria Dock

Thank you for stitching me up" I say. "I seem to have a talent for it.

Dance of the Red Death

I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.

Dance of the Red Death

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

Drop It! Practical Guide to Self Enlightenment

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England