I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
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.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of public opinion.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
It is not death it is dying that alarms me.
Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily but good deeds live forever.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
My fear was not of death itself but a death without meaning.
Whether for life or death do your own work well.
If life must not be taken too seriously then so neither must death.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross unkind word from my father.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference ' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
I like to behave in an extremely normal wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence terror sex and death.
Generally speaking the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Year by year we are learning that in this restless strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.