Pastoral Resources

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death by starvation is slow.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

The sole equality on earth is death.

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.