It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Our business is with life, not death.
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.