Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Katharine Lee Bates
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
Bell Hooks
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Stanley Hauerwas
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Jesus Christ
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
I'm not afraid of death.
Maurice Sendak
A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was...
J.K. Rowling
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet
George Eliot
Failure too is a form of death.
Graham Greene
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.
William Mountford
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
Suzanne Collins
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.
Meredith Duran
I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.
Gemma Malley
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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