#death

Atheists and their fellow travelers point to Islamic terrorism as a wake-up call that we'd better abandon God or the biblical disasters attributed to him will pale in comparison to what we'll end up doing to ourselves. In other words, God may not be dead, but keeping him alive endangers the human race. ↗

— Richard Yancey

#death-of-god #god #religion #death

Birth was the death of him. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#death #him

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

— Brendan Behan

#could #death #i #me #said

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#death #fad #fads #go #goes

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #father #had #his #know

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. ↗

— John Berger

#character #death #itself #modern #notion

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#breakfast #daily #death #destruction #fact

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. ↗

— Jack Black

#creatures #death #i #i love #love

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#different #different sides #life #life and death #line

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bore #children #death #effort #funny