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" Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. "

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" The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. "

Theodore Parker

Death

Brother

Soul

" Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. "

" Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. "

" Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. "

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

Hannah Arendt

Escape

Try

" If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. "

" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. "

" Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. "

Katharine Hepburn

Interviews

Will

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "

" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "

" Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. "

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

Henry Rollins

Speed

Body

" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "

" When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. "

" I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. "

" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

" I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us. "

" L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death. "

" Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. "

" You've gotta know what death is to know life! "

" 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. "

" Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

Kevyn Aucoin

Threats

Left

" The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. "