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My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

Jai Rodriguez

Being Death Gay Mother Thought

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Marquis de Sade

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

Kevin Spacey

Death Houses Success Successful

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

Adventure Death Mind

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

Death Desire Hope Life Longing

The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Dawn Powell

Comedy Death Disease Greed Love Lust Man Tragedy Vanity War

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

Argument Charity Christ Crime Death Men Religion

I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Hedy Lamarr

Death Destiny Earth Life Safety

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters

Blind Body Death Indifference Night Pain Shadows Will World

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

John Millington Synge

Complaint Death Grief Woman Years

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

Kit Williams

Death Lady Today

The priest is Christ’s slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

Christ Death Freedom God Life Needs

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious – and therefore immoral – I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

George Ryan

Believe me, if a man doesn’t know death, he doesn’t know life.

William A. Drake

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Conway Twitty

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Victoria de los Angeles

Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Layne Staley

Death Drugs Wood

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.

Antonin Scalia

Abortion Constitution Death Flexibility Idea Living Right Want

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Alfred Nobel

Death Idea Peace Promotion Results

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don’t know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Stephen Rea

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

George Carlin

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Francis Picabia

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

George Wald

Death Evolution Fact Invention

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Hu Shih

Achievement Death Immortality Knowledge Self

Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.

Lena Horne

In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Damien Hirst

Death Decisions Life

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

George Lincoln Rockwell

Death Fight Hell March Right Song Victory

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

Doc Hastings

Business Death Family Property Tax Taxes Time Value Will Years

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Buddy Holly

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

Death Desire Gifts Gods

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mohandas Gandhi

Death Faith Fear Religion Religious Want

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man’s eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

Hugh Sidey

Death Decisions Eyes Life Man People World

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death.

Tammy Bruce

Americans Care Death Health People

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Bill Shankly

Death Football Life

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexander Dumas

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

Christy Turlington

Death Education Succeed Tools Will

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

Children Death Fear Men

It was very hard for all of us. It’s still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years… it’s unbelievable.

Eydie Gorme

Death Friends Years

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Balloons Children Death Graduation Sky

But death’s acquisitive instincts will win.

Harold Brodkey

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Claes Oldenburg

Chicago Death Elegance

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.

Samuel Butler

Death Mercy Will

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brothers Death Nothing Sisters Spirit

To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?

Tucker Carlson

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

Death Life Living Shadow Shadows

Celebrity is death – celebrity – that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Glenn Close

Actor Celebrity Death

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death Enjoyment Insects Life

We’re also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That’s something to boast about, isn’t it?

Tony Randall

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