He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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

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.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

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

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

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

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Our life is made by the death of others.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

An unused life is an early death.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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

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

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.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death is a fearful thing.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

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

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

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.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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

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.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

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

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

How I love David Bowie.

He would make a lovely corpse.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

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