I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
