Death of reason quotes:

Send

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. -- Henry George Bohn
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. -- Drew Barrymore
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. -- G. Gordon Liddy
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. -- Thomas Aquinas
There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc. -- Kurt Eichenwald
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. -- L. Neil Smith
If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important. -- Steven Pinker
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. -- Sloane Crosley
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. -- David Brooks
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself. -- Sharon Jones
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. -- Suzanne Collins
I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss. -- Jenny Nimmo
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. -- Thomas Mann
Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all. -- Marilyn Manson
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability. -- Seth MacFarlane
The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority. -- Bryant McGill
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. -- Saint Basil
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. -- Henry George Bohn
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. -- Antonin Scalia
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity â?? it's envy. -- Yann Martel
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -- George Bernard Shaw
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
--
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death. -- Robinson Jeffers
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. -- Socrates
I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica -- Shannon A. Thompson
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. -- Leonid Andreyev
Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death. -- Ahmad ibn Ajiba
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason. -- K.J. Parker
The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death . . . -- James Woods
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. -- Esther Hicks
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. -- Alfred Tennyson
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. -- Isaac Asimov
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. -- Jonathan Swift
Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable. -- Johnny Rich
When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me. -- Curtis Jackson
We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God. -- Billy Graham
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born. -- Paulo Coelho
But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go. -- John Philpot Curran
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. -- Jean Giraudoux

Send