The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

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

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

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

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

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.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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.

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

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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

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.

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.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

A useless life is an early death.

My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

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

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

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

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

I'm not afraid to die.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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