'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

A useless life is an early death.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

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.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

An evil life is a kind of death.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

An unused life is an early death.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

Birth was the death of him.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Death by starvation is slow.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death is a very important part of life.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

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

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

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.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Death's in the good-bye.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

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

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

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.

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.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Everything that gets born dies.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Failure too is a form of death.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I am against the death penalty.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

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

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

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

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

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.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I looked Death right in the face.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I'm not afraid of death.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I'm working myself to death.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

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.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

In every parting there is an image of death.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.