Quotes of: Life-and-death Keyword

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Death of a Red Heroine

Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.

Death with Interruptions

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Death Masks

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)

The Dermis Probe

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Death in the Fifth Position

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Death of a Salesman

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

Dead Scared

You like playing with fire?” “Yes. It is my favorite element.” She extracted her arm from his grip and stepped inside the elevator

Death's Storm

They took form in a bedroom, Khloe realized with a scowl. He noticed and gave her a sideways grin. Arrogant ass. Laugh it up, demon.

Death's Storm

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

Death in the Woods and Other Stories

...they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)

Death of a Showgirl

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Death in the Stocks

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

Dog Tags

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

The End of Forever

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

The Elementals

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu

Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.

Everautumn