One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.
Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)
The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!
Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere the traces of one great beauty...
There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.
Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.
At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.
... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
I have witness the stars brighter than a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write 'until death do us part.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
Jesus' death & resurrection on behalf of everyone gives his true Followers blamelessness when we believe (Romans 10:8-12 at ) ...not faultlessness! ~ © gfp '42™
I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . .
I stood my ground, staring straight into his eyes. "You didn't do anything to me. Since when is sex so life or death to you?" -Abby Abernathy "Since it was with you!" -Travis Maddox
