Life-and-death Quotes
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
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By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".
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What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.
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If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
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The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
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We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
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The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?
