Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

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

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.