Quotes of: Death-penalty Keyword

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The Infinite Sea

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Janet Frame: An Autobiography

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

Jane Eyre

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

I realized that love is stronger than death and that people you barely know can amaze you.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?" Roarke: "Summerset has the night off." Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.

Kindred in Death

Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. “Hey, Dark Princess? Here’s your crap. Also, bite me.

Kiss of Death

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Kiss of Death

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Kiss of Death

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

Kristin Cashore eSampler

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

Katie in Love

O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Romeo and Juliet

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

Ruinland

His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?

Red-Headed Stepchild

My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

The Ritual

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Revolution

So you'll be my bodyguard for any guys who want to introduce me to anal?' I joke. 'I will defend your virtue and your ass to the death,' he says with a knightly vow.

Revealed

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

The Raven Warrior

Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's is this - my death.

Real World

...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov