For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle wise people are diligent.
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad she started dating one my teachers!
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend it does become life and death.
I don't deal with death very well. My brother John Candy my dad my mom Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean you lose a lot of people in your life and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
Therefore don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side they may be like the hardened one and reproach death itself.
When we have done our best we can as a united people take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us death is not the end.
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Everyone focuses on the earthly state but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth and I can't wait to experience that.
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about thinking about life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that big human topics.
Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix lose our stuff and on occasion they crash producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat it won't jump out. Instead it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Since change is constant you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
We are not victims of aging sickness and death. These are part of scenery not the seer who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit the expression of eternal being.
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?
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.
It more or less has the shape of a love song but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals fire danger of death stellar navigation and seasonal intuition.