Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.