death

"Long experience has shown that armies can not be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the constitution, sanction this punish…"

"Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it."

"He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death."

"What was time, after all, except a lead-footed march from the precincts of youth into the country of the grave? Time was the force that crumbled granite, devoured memory, and seduced infants into seni…"

"Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras."

"Death is very, very terminal."

"The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken."

"Heloise at Find a Grave"

"A person seeing my grave deserves my intercession. And a person who visits me after my death is like a person who visited me during my lifetime."

"The greying east brightened, metamorphosed to pink, then red, and then the giant ball of fire rose out of the blackened hills. Across the desolation lay a supreme indifference, the casualness of night…"

"In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level."

"It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers."

"Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician."

"The wisdom of God oft times appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when god speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right."

"It is only when death releases the true poet from the embarrassing condition of being at once immortal and alive in the flesh that the people are prepared to honour him; and his spirit as it passes is…"

"The fact that we do not have a demonstrable gun problem disturbs our “progressives” in a terrible manner. For years they have been dying for something like Jokela to happen. So that they can yell triu…"

"And the conversion of the other Don Quixote — he who was converted only to die — was possible because he was mad, and it was his madness, and not his death or his conversion that immortalized him, ear…"

"When I go it will have to be by gondola because I have so much baggage. Some private Charon of the signora's will ferry me down to the station in his shabby funeral bark. That is how the Allies took V…"

"Why should we be more shy of repeating ourselves than the spring be tired of blossoms or the night of stars?"

"“Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up."