Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.
The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.
Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
