Death Penalties Quotes

1. "Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death."
Author: Angela Carter

2. "God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
Author: Charlotte Brontë

3. "Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son's death because his death was ugly and unfair. You're grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death."
Author: Cheryl Strayed

4. "When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order."
Author: Chris Cleave

5. "She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through the section at one point and vaguely recalled a long list of punishments culminating with the guilty party being ritually trampled to death by the population of the village of Avebury, which seemed unlikely, or at least somewhat difficult to arrange."
Author: Daniel O'Malley

6. "... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks."
Author: Diane Setterfield

7. "I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a French van full of French chickens because I'd looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Which shows how cunning the Gestapo are. "This person I've pulled from beneath the wheels of certain death was expecting traffic to travel on the left side of the road. Therefore she must be British, and is likely to have parachuted into Nazi-occupied France out of an Allied plane. I shall now arrest her as a spy."
Author: Elizabeth Wein

8. "When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

9. "Hardy classified A Pair of Blue Eyes among ‘Romances and Fantasies'. A favourite of Tennyson, its melancholy treatment of youth, love and death is expressive of late nineteenth-century susceptibilities. Not unnaturally in an early novel, Hardy draws freely on his own life."
Author: Geoffrey Harvey

10. "I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."
Author: George Ryan

11. "Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats."
Author: Henry Thomas

12. "We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are."
Author: Janet Fitch

13. "Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either."
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

14. "The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet REvolution, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1920 through 1927- there are many trials such as these in which the victim was already condemned to death before the trial took place, and it took place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be put to death. These are trials in which the judge, the counsel, the jury, and the witnesses are the criminals, not the accused. For any believer in capital punishment, the fear of an honest mistake on the part of all concerned is cited as the main argument against the final terrible decision to carry out the death sentence. There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgement has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder."
Author: Katherine Anne Porter

15. "I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God."
Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

16. "Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion"."Oh?"Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious."
Author: Michelle Sagara West

17. "Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's."
Author: Nancy McKenzie

18. "But only part of him was listening. Another part, even if it hadn't read Chomsky or Jung or Sheldrake—who had time for dead guys anyway?— at least had a basic understanding of what those guys had gone on about. Quantum nonlocality, quantum consciousness—Desjardins had seen too many cases of mass coincidence to dismiss the idea that nine billion human minds could be imperceptibly interconnected somehow. He'd never really thought about it much, but on some level he'd believed in the Collective Unconscious for years.He just hadn't realized that the fucking thing had a death wish."
Author: Peter Watts

19. "You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them."
Author: Rick Cochran

20. "You're not done with me entirely, human. I'm the mother of his daughter. (Artemis)You're right. You are Katra's mother, poor her. But you're wrong about one thing. (Tory)And that is? (Artemis)I'm no longer human. I'm the Atlantie Kedemonia Theony – the guardian of the Atlantean gods. And right now there's only one of them walking about and to save him from one more bad memory created by you, I'd bathe in your entrails, bitch. As for Kat, she's a big girl – I know, I used to live with her. She'll survive the death of her mother. Trust me, I have firsthand experience with the subject. (Tory)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

21. "District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety."
Author: Suzanne Collins

22. "Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
Author: Tryon Edwards

23. "Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

24. "The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either."
Author: Wendell Berry

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