#death

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. ↗

— John Grisham

#best #books #death #death penalty #fraud

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#could #death #i #me #said

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. ↗

— Georg Hermes

#arrow #death #flight #lasts #life

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ↗

— Herodotus

#delightful #hiding #men #place #weary

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #beautiful #because #confront #death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. ↗

— George Eliot

#breeds #cries #death #feed #him

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#itself #life #pain #part #reject

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death. ↗

— Mike Epps

#him #i #i love #love #pryor