The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
