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

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

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.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

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

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

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

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 am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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

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

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

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.

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.

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

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.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

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.

An unused life is an early death.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

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.

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.

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

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

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.