Quotes:When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to
death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
View quotes by Brendan BehanFor centuries the
death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
View quotes by Albert CamusIn taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, 'until
death doth part.'
View quotes by Emma GoldmanOur people receive the news of his
death with a deep sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Gloria ArroyoDeath is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
View quotes by Thomas MertonFew cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of
death.
View quotes by HoraceIt has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or
death.
View quotes by Ella WilcoxThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the
death of the earth.
View quotes by Elias CanettiWe are all of us resigned to
death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
View quotes by Graham GreeneI know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me
death!
View quotes by Patrick HenryWithout fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of
death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
View quotes by Lewis MumfordDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to
death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
View quotes by Colin PowellEverybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like
death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
View quotes by Peter F DruckerI'm not afraid of
death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
View quotes by Derek JarmanLife cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until
death.
View quotes by Edna FerberNo society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of
death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
View quotes by Eugene IonescoIsrael, the Jewish people and the entire world, lost today a great champion of reconciliation and brotherhood between the faiths.
This is a great loss, first and foremost for the Catholic Church and its hundreds of millions of believers, but also for humanity as a whole.
[on the
death of Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Silvan ShalomAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death.
View quotes by Leonardo Da VinciNo man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man's
death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions)
View quotes by John DonnePerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of
death, which is the only fact we have.
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