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

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.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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.

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

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

All mankind love a lover.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

God does not play dice.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

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.

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

For greed all nature is too little.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

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

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

He who hath many friends hath none.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

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.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

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.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A useless life is an early death.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.