#death

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#attack #been #center #cheeks #death

People living deeply have no fear of death. ↗

— Anais Nin

#death #deeply #fear #living #no fear

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. ↗

— Eliot Ness

#death #disturb #down #eventually #face

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#announcement #death #faith #first #i

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death. ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#bankers #death #district #i #local

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#believes #built #church #conquered #death

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. ↗

— Claes Oldenburg

#chicago #death #elegance #metaphysical #strange

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death. ↗

— Floyd Patterson

#been #death #fear #i #necessary

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#absurd #always #could #death #humanity

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#birth #common #cowards #death #escape