Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

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

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

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

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

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.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

The valiant never taste of death but once.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

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

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

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

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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

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

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

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

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

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

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?

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

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.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.