I had reasoned this out in my mind, 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.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
My own death threats have declined considerably.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Blood and death. That moves me.
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother i...
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went ...
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
