Death Throes Quotes

#1. The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. Beside him, Gauri looked distraught. Chivalry demanded that he
should inquire after the Princess's well- being. She caught
him looking at her and frowned:
"You're heaving like a water buffalo in its death throes."
Never mind.

Roshani Chokshi

#3. The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

Bryant McGill

#4. Except for the lack of enormous insects, suffocating humidity, malaria victims groaning in death throes, poisonous vipers as thick as mosquitoes, and rabid jungle cats madly devouring their own feet, you would have sworn you were in the Amazon rainforest.

Dean Koontz

#5. Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.

That is insanity.

Wrong, it's being human.

Ben Counter

#6. Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.

Darrell Drake

#7. Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Howard Bloom

#8. The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.

Harlan Coben

#9. Utterly absorbing ... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

Jack F. Matlock Jr.

#10. TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Penn Jillette

#11. Skinless creatures swayed in death throes from thick, silver hooks. Beneath them, on the turquoise mosaic floor, rows of buckets overflowed with clotting blood.

Douglas Clegg

#12. Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Erol Ozan

#13. There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

Karl Marx

#14. There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.

Margaret Atwood

#15. I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Mariah Carey

#16. I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

Paul Merton

#17. We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

Francis Schaeffer

#18. I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Ali Smith

#19. That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the least exhibitionist, because it's not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn't do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.

Milan Kundera

#20. I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

Elisabeth Of Wied

#21. It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

Vladimir Lenin

#22. Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

#23. But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.

Karen White