Quotes of: Life-and-death Keyword

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Jane Birkin

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Steven Curtis Chapman

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Vladimir Lenin

Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works of Virginia Woolf remain essential reading. More than fifty years since her death, accounts of her life still set the pace for modern ...

The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf

[first lines] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and s...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exulta...

The Call of the Wild

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of .

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

Diary of a Drug Fiend

'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.'

Dark Geist

Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end.

Death and Transfiguration

A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would save your life because you are his sister, but his tongue is not so easily guided by his brother's heart.

Edgelanders

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

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His crucifixion is the key; His resurrection is the door... it is only by his death that we have the mandate to enter into the gates of eternal life. His doors are open always. Christ is king!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death. ("Hard Candy")

Hard Candy

I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible," Laura said, laughing.

H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there ...

Anne Hathaway