death

"We are touring the Ozarks. Here is an abandoned field in which the ragweed is sparse and short. Does this tell us anything about why the mortgage was foreclosed? About how long ago? Would this field b…"

"Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event."

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."

"As any television viewer or newspaper reader could discern the end in South Vietnam, in April 1975, came with incredible suddenness, amid scenes of unmitigated misery and shame. Utter defeat, panic, a…"

"More black boys between ten and twenty are killed by homicide than by the next nine leading causes of death combined."

"There can be no doubt that the existence of public tortures and executions were connected with something quite other than this internal organization. Rusche and Kirchheimer are right to see it as the …"

"was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threaten…"

"You send me to Washington to represent you in the senate. But you do not send me there because you are interested in grave questions of national or international policy. When I come back to Arizona, y…"

"I had always had grave doubts about Eliot's taste and, indeed, intelligence."

"Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites."

"'Tis come, our fated day of death."

"The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters."

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote."

"In their speech is death, hell in their smile."

"You see, if I could believe that I shall see and touch him again, I shall not have lost him. And if I have not lost him, I shall never have had a son. Because I am I through bereavement and because of…"

"Moslems everywhere behave with equal savagery. They behead criminals, stone to death female — only female — adulteresses, throw acid in the faces of women who refuse to wear the chador, mutilate the g…"

"Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for."

"I would rather that this people should starve to death in the mountains, than to have the Lord Almighty hand us over to a cursed, infernal mob. I would rather go down to the grave in peace than to fig…"

"...I feel nothing over the death of mercenries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for prof…"