Death is a fearful thing.
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military ...
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was l...
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
