...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking abo...ut the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,... Relieve my languish, and restore the light, With dark forgetting of my cares return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
West Hell, said to be the hottest and toughest part of that notorious resort, was once the home of Big John de Conqueror, who elop...ed with the Devil's daughter.... The Devil pursued them on his famous jumping bull, and when they met, Big John tore off one of the Devil's arms and almost beat him to death with it. Before Big John left Hell, he passed out ice water to everybody, and even turned down the dampers, remarking that he expected to return to visit his wife's folks pretty soon, and he didn't like the house kept so hot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced... in, and instantly pronounced his verdict, "Deader 'n hell!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a uni...que apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourse...lf to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, I see it is reasonable to punish a rash action, which could not be justly done by man to man, unless the same were volunt...ary. For no action of a man can be said to be without deliberation, though never so sudden, because it is supposed he had time to deliberate all the precedent time of his life, whether he should do that kind of action or not. And hence it is, that he that killeth in a sudden passion of anger, shall nevertheless be justly put to death, because all the time, wherein he was able to consider whether to kill were good or evil, shall be held for one continual deliberation, and consequently the killing shall be judged to proceed from election.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »