More quotations tagged with “death”
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
—Sue Monk Kidd
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country.
—Phyllis Wright
Each of us, we humans, if we are to look our own kind in the eye, should at least be willing to say we’re sorry, that all over our smaller and more lethal planet, whatever the causes, we’re still killing our own kind—the same but different, but our own kind nonetheless.
—Thomas Lynch
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
—P.D. James
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
—Bertrand Russell