I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
Three years ago, I had thought I lost my whole world, but it all actuality I was saved. Saved from death and a life full of lies. Three years ago fate stepped in.
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivation...
Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.
We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.
Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.
The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams.
The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
The death of these people might have changed the world, Grace, so we might have changed the world, Grace, so we sometimes have to look at death not as something sad, but as something to be glad for. Sometimes death changes our lives in ways we never ...
Love is sometimes difficult but death even more so.
To threaten the brave with death is like promising water to a duck.
When an old man marries, death laughs.
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become highly troubled by it. He may be aware exactly when and where it will occur. He may see an aura around people wh...
