#death

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. ↗

— Claes Oldenburg

#chicago #death #elegance #metaphysical #strange

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. ↗

— Alan Parker

#am #death #death penalty #i #i am

I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#death #beauty

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#day #death #dies #easily #every

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death. ↗

— Floyd Patterson

#been #death #fear #i #necessary

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#absurd #always #could #death #humanity