Karl Shapiro Quotes

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Only the young die good.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

I don't intend to die.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.