Sentence To Death Quotes

#1. Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We

Neal Shusterman

#2. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#3. You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

Darren Shan

#4. Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he'll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he'll go mad, or start to weep.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions.

Elizabeth Ironside

#7. Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

Sufjan Stevens

#8. We are like a people under [a] sentence of death, waiting for the date to be set. We sense that something is about to happen.
We know that things cannot go on as they are. History has reached an impasse. We are now on a collision course. Something is about to give.

Billy Graham

#9. All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.

Salman Rushdie

#10. AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

William J. Clinton

#11. I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Johnny Depp

#12. Is today a good day to die?

Jennifer Niven

#13. The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#14. A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

Edward Gibbon

#15. The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that's destined to carry me down

Rick Yancey

#16. In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

August Spies

#18. One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.

Gene Veith

#19. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Jodie Foster

#20. Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

T.E. Lawrence

#21. Drive out the demon called fear, and if it returns from exile grant it
no amnesty, sentence it to death.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Jodi Picoult

#23. The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. Baylon wasn't sure he could conceal his craving for her, the need that clawed and ripped through him to declare Jordyn as his. It would be a death sentence, but to live without her ... that was also a death sentence.

Donna Grant

#25. You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence.

Marguerite Duras

#26. Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Jean Baudrillard

#27. Her face was as red as her hair. "What are you doing," she cried.
Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. "Editing your paper." What did it look like he was doing?
"You're just cutting out stuff!"
"What do you think editing is?

M.M. John

#28. No, brother-in-law, you have passed a death sentence on your people and on your Queen, your wife, the woman you have vowed to protect. And do not think your child will escape me. I will search all eternity - I will never cease until the child of my sister dies.

Darren Simon

#29. ...I think that the love I sent to him was a merciless thing. I sent him love in exchange for his death; I didn't love him in exchange for his death. I was not intending to console and love him because he was sentenced to death.

Ayako Sono

#30. Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.

Richard Paul Evans

#31. I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

Alice Munro

#32. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

Richard Curtis

#33. Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#34. Recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to

Karen Marie Moning

#35. Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.

Tucker Max

#36. I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.

Melody Beattie

#37. No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving.

Boey Kim Cheng

#38. To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.

John Wesley

#39. Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. "I will stay and Michael can go." Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn't let him die.

Willow Cross

#40. I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Laura Linney

#41. For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts, I sentence this man to death.'
She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and she was the Queen.
'Off with his head

Marissa Meyer

#42. The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse.

John Goode

#43. After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

Ron Paul

#44. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.

Virginia Aird

#45. 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us n rely not on ourselves o but on God p who raises the dead. 10 q He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. r On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

Anonymous

#46. It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Frederick Forsyth

#47. Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.

Andrea Nye

#48. My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

Aaron Brookner

#49. Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.

Antonin Scalia

#50. Autism is not a death sentence but a rich fulfilled life sentence so to speak.

Janet Walmsley

#51. I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Ujjwal Nikam

#52. If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#53. I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

Irakli Okruashvili

#54. Rick to Herschel: My wife is pregnant. That is either a gift here, or a death sentence out there.

The Walking Dead

#55. Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#56. She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#57. Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Susan Sontag

#58. Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

Bernie Sanders