death

"What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian"

"So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing."

"One of your American authors put it so well. He said awakening is the death of your belief in injustice and tragedy. The end of the world for a caterpillar is a butterfly for the master. Death is resu…"

"I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way."

"Had Abraham Lincoln died from any of the numerous ills to which flesh is heir; had he reached that good old age of which his vigorous constitution and his temperate habits gave promise; had he been pe…"

"After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at su…"

"British TV's reaction to the death of John Lennon"

"Whatever has happened to Stalin, gentlemen, is a question for the Soviet Union.… You are responsible, and your forebears, for 60 million to 100 million black people dying in the slave ships and on the…"

"My lands are where my dead lie buried."

"I am glad this asshole is dead. Sorry for his wife and kids, but relieved they are in no further danger from his lunacy!"

"It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin."

"I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure."

"No one underestimated Jap: he might be a subhuman creature who tortured and starved prisoners of war to death, raped women captives, and used civilians for bayonet practice, but there was no braver so…"

"A great many things are dying very violently all the time. The best days for violent deaths are Tuesdays. They are the yellow-paint days. Saturdays are second best -- or worst. Saturdays are red-paint…"

"But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."

"There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned."

"In what time does man live? The thinkers have always known that he does not live in any time at all. The immortality of thoughts and deeds banishes him to a timeless realm at whose heart an inscrutabl…"

"With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to…"

"And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."

"If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error."