Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
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.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.