I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride ego and anger.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

I answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."

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.

I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

Because of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things, than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.

When the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.

Death and life have their determined appointments, riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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

As long as your body is healthy and under control, and death is distant, try to save your soul, when death is immanent what can you do?

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

It's bleak, because I can't - many of us can't - hear her sweet voice, but it's great because she did live and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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.

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

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.

Our life is made by the death of others.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

You gotta love livin' baby 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted, according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick at least we didn't die, so let us all be thankful.

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star, one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The worst is Death, and death will have his day.

Speak me fair in death.

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Beware the Ides of March.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it I get up.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Life is tragic, simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day for each of us the sun will go down for the last, last time.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears, there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

If we don't know life how can we know death?

Death is just life's next big adventure.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism, or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Death is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.

Wish I am free from barriers when I die and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death, can erase our good deeds.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

I'd rather be dead then cool.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

No one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.

Land and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.

The God of death does not give notice of His arrival to take hold of you. He is not like the photographer who says I am clicking are you ready?

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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

I balanced all brought all to mind the years to come seemed waste of breath a waste of breath the years behind in balance with this life this death.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Remember that you have only one soul, that you have only one death to die, that you have only one life. . . . If you do this there will be many things about which you care nothing.

I'm not afraid of death but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

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

See that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

The chief problem about death incidentally is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

I hate myself and I want to die

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Our bodies are perishable wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

[But the strongest reason he gave for discounting the results of the B-sample tests from France was heartfelt and honest and totally typical of the iconic cancer survivor.] A guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence ... Why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from but our severity.

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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

It brings no glory to man if he is tied helplessly to the wheel of birth and death. His glory and greatness consist in disentangling himself from that revolving wheel.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Of all escape mechanisms death is the most efficient.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather on his deathbed sold me this watch.

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.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death but conquers agony.

It is easy to go down into Hell, night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide, but to climb back again to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub the task.

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.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.

We are born weak we need strength, helpless we need aid, foolish we need reason. All that we lack at birth all that we need when we come to man's estate is the gift of education.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand, for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky, they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks ? May be he may knock this very night this very moment, therefore do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day ! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

After all every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well clothed well housed well and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions with no injury to health or security.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.

If someone is going down the wrong road he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.

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

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?

It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Whether for life or death do your own work well.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; And if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.

Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses and of the pulling of the cords of motion and of the ways of thought and of service to the flesh.

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

We are not victims of aging sickness and death. These are part of scenery not the seer who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit the expression of eternal being.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death, and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid the further the date of redemption is postponed.

The main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies, for as is a crane among swans so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Death gives advance notice of his arrival to take you Sai Baba

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Death destroys a man but the idea of death saves him.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

It is not death it is dying that alarms me.

Regard your soldiers as your children and they will follow you into the deepest valleys, look on them as your own beloved sons and they will stand by you even unto death.

You must not fear death my lads, defy him and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Normality is death.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.

Prepare for death if here at night you roam and sign your will before you sup from home.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises quality health services and educational facilities.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Pale death with impartial step knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

When the will defies fear when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting even in death.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I mean in the South African case many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community people who went to church on Sunday every Sunday.

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.

If you consider my situation: a guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Every moment many are born and many die. But man has to discover how to 'avoid' death.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

All violence consists in some people forcing others under threat of suffering or death to do what they do not want to do.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

Our nature consists in motion, complete rest is death.

Death like birth is a secret of Nature.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

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.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Do not contemplate on death, it is just an incident in life, contemplate on God who is the master of all life.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

He who is born cannot escape death some time somewhere.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

With death doomed to grapple / Beneath this cold slab he / Who lied in the chapel / Now lies in the Abbey.

In every death a busy world comes to an end.

It's not catastrophes murders deaths diseases that age and kill us, it's the way people look and laugh and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

Death unites as well as separates, it silences all paltry feeling.

I know not what others may choose but as for me give me liberty or give me death.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

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.

England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death / And close her from thy ancient walls?

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way until every inner city is cleaned up there is no shortage of things to do.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

When death the great reconciler has come it is never our tenderness that we repent of but our severity.

Humanity should question itself once more about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Maro you' give me nothing while you live but after death you cry then you'll give, If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass

Death accepts no excuse Tears do not move its heart.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

But as to women who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love their virtue beauty education but form good housekeepers to breed a nation.

At a formal dinner party the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

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.

All tragedies are finished by a death All comedies are ended by a marriage

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character.

The goal of all life is death.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert then joined the army. The first time he saluted he killed himself.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Death comes as a heavy blow when known too well to others you die unknown to yourself.

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

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them, for these only gave them life those the art of living well.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death two and two do not make six.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy etc. and the less we think about it the better.

Death is the wish of some the relief of many and the end of all.

There's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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

We should always deal cautiously with fire water women foolish people serpents and members of a royal family, for they may when the occasion presents itself at once bring about our death.

I look forward to death with great anticipation to meeting God face to face.

There is no lonelier man in death except the suicide than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Death obsesses me yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really I'm just a little more out about it.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.

Death may call any moment Every moment everyone is nearing death.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed clothed fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

Art has the power to transform to illuminate to educate inspire and motivate.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

An unused life is an early death.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Personally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.

Death gives us sleep eternal youth and immortality.