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

He had the unmistakable sensation of being wounded so near to death that he felt his soul slide out of him, then slip back. – Norman Mailer, preface to 1976 reissue of Advertisements for Myself, referring t

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall