In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
Phil Klay
RelationshipDeathWarWorldDoing
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
Kevin J. Anderson
TimeMyselfDeathWritingThinkGo
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge
GriefWomanDeathIslandPersonal
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
Charles Ferguson Smith
GoodDeathMeYouHearShall
My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.
Ruth Rendell
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If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
Frank Tipler
LiveDeathLovedYouPhysicsLost
I don't believe in death.
Bob Weir
DeathBelieve
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard
RainDeathPeopleThinkRealityUp
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
Tea Obreht
DeathMeGrandfatherComeHappened
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Basil Hume
DeathSufferingSadnessWeekWill
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
LifeLiveDeathWiseDieYou
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Samuel Foote
DeathDiceLevelDistinctions
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
DeathPeopleNothingBeyondOwnOur
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
Karlie Kloss
LifeDeathHelp OthersThinkHelp
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
DeathKindGoingOnlyAbroadLarger
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
Barry Sonnenfeld
LoveDeathSchoolHigh SchoolMovies
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
Kate Forsyth
AgeMomentDayDeathMeWriting
Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
Talia Shire
TimePastDeathHusbandYesterday
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Kara Swisher
DeathInternetMediaLookHardAway
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
Samantha Bond
BusinessDeathManPeopleSickSame
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk
JusticeBestDeathFightSociety
Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
Rand Paul
JusticeDeathNew YorkAmericaWrong
I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
Ian McShane
DeathBelievePersonalUnderstand
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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