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" The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. "

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" Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. "

Paul Ricoeur

Death

Living

Resurrection

" Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. "

" One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. "

" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

" When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. "

" One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. "

" Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside. "

" Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand. "

" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "

" People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

See

People

Death

" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "

" Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. "

Marcus Aurelius

Welcome

Nature

" The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune. "

" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "

" Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity. "

" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "

" The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. "

" That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again. "

" The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. "

Patrick Swayze

Life

You

" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "

" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "

" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "

" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "

" I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. "

Jack Kevorkian

Death

Will