All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling worl...
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
God grants an easy death only to the just.
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is somethi...
Birth was the death of him.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly hig...
