The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

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.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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

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

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

How young can you die of old age?

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

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

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

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.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

It is natural to die as to be born.

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

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

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.