There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? – Woody Allen
An unused life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. – Ron Paul
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. – W. C. Fields
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. – Sun Tzu
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. – Fran Lebowitz
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem. – Joseph Stalin
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? – W. C. Fields
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. – Patrick Henry
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – Coco Chanel
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. – Julius Caesar
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. – Angelina Jolie
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. – Emily Dickinson
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. – Henry Ward Beecher
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other. – Harriet Tubman