Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?