Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens ...
I like death. I'm a big fan of it.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to...
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
