Pastoral Resources

Marriage is the death of hope.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Death is a very important part of life.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.