Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. – John Milton
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. – Steven Morrissey
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. – Emma Thompson
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. – Andre Breton
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. – Anne Boleyn
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. – Ivan Illich
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy
Inactivity is death. – Benito Mussolini
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau
Everybody is entertained to death. – Brian Eno
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from. – John Cleese
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale
I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me? – Guru Nanak
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. – Emile M. Cioran
Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown. – Emile M. Cioran
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. – Bodhidharma
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. – Stokely Carmichael
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. – Charles de Gaulle
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar. – Xun Zi
