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

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

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

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

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.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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.

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

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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.

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.

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.

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

What we live by we die by.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

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

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

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.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

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 seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

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

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‚space cheese.‘ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.

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.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

An unused life is an early death.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.