In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

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

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

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

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 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.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

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

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

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

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

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

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

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?

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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.

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

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

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

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

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.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

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.

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

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

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.

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 evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.