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

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

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

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

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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?

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

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

What we live by we die by.

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

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

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

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

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

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

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 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.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

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?

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

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

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

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

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.

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

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

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.

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.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

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

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.