It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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. . . .
But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests or the Strangers. Death is their fate, the gift of Illúvatar, which as time wears even the Powers shall envy.
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
Some parts of the Bible I find a little troubling. For example, if Jesus really believed in nonviolence, why did He destroy the Death Star?
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
