#death

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#death #had #i #if i could #liberty

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#creates #death #destroying #destroys #extinguished

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#death #education #enable #preventable #put

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#act #amount #daily #daily lives #death

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bit #conversation #death #guys #i

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering

Our business is with life, not death. ↗

— George Wald

#death #life #our

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #believe #better #boring #fresh

Nothing in life is promised except death. ↗

— Kanye West

#except #life #nothing #promised

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#brain #conscious #consciousness #death #fragile