Quotes of: Death-penalty Keyword

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Complete Poems and Selected Letters

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Crown of Midnight

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.

Chronic Passions

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Cosmos

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

Death of the Body

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

The Death Cure

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...

The Death Cure

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

The Death Cure

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

A Dirty Job

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

Deathless

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

A Death in Vienna

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Every Man Dies Alone

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Eloisa to Abelard

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Electra

Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.

Early to Death, Early to Rise

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

Greek Religion