As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Grumbling is the death of love.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.