Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. ”

I find it reprehensible that anyone would seek to denigrate the legacy of Dr. King in any way. ”

Taxation is probably one of the biggest problems this state is facing, especially in Cook County. I think Cook County is one of the counties a lot of people don't want to live in anymore. ”

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. ”

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. ”

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. ”

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. ”

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy. ”

My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real. ”

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ”