It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. Eliot Spitzer
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death. Jessica Simpson
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. Simon Cowell
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. Robert Falcon Scott
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Thomas Hobbes
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. Alfred Nobel
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. Heinrich Heine
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman
I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death. Lena Dunham
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. Stanislav Grof
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. Mariah Carey
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. John Cusack
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann
I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! Kirk Hammett
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. Gus Van Sant
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus