I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. – Robert Green Ingersoll
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. – David Herbert Lawrence
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. – Horace
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. – Horace
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. – Omar N. Bradley
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. – Dave Barry
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. – Michel de Montaigne
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. – Michel de Montaigne
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. – Amelia Barr
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. – Eric Cantona
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism. – Robert Green Ingersoll
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. – Henry Miller
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. – James Russell Lowell
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. – William Wycherley
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. – E. M. Forster
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. – E. M. Forster
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt
