#death

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. ↗

— Jacqueline Cochran

#live #me #risk #tantamount #without

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#death #event #only #taxable #washington

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. ↗

— Eric Holder

#enforcement #law #law enforcement #me #official

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#debt #like #marriage #nature #owe

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#detective #five #forms #least #sees

Death is better than slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#death #slavery #than

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#culture #death #how #i #islamic

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #business #conduct #conscience #death

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change #character #come #costume #death