You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
