#death

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. ↗

— Janet Reno

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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. ↗

— Mary Renault

#bitter #death #evil #friend #him

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#afraid #day #death #every #every day

I’m sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I’m gonna need your clothes. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#death #espionage-thriller #martial-arts #wuxia #art

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful #chaos #death #love #beauty

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

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Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. ↗

— Antonio Machado

#death

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #philosophy #death

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#babe #born #coerce #death #decide

Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#death-and-dying #literature #literature-writing #art