The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.