Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death
Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, y...
We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; during the 20th century, the rate of civilian deaths rose sharply and now ...
Admiral Ackbar: You can see here, the Death Star orbiting the forest moon of Endor. Although, the weapon systems on this Death Star or not yet operational, the Death Star does have a strong defense mechanism. It is protected by an energy shield which...
Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar.
