Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we'll starve to 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. ”

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers. ”

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. ”

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too. ”

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ”

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ”

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. ”

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. ”

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ”