Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it. ”

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. ”

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction. ”

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts. ”

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life. ”

I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle. ”

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death. ”

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. ”

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ”

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. ”