Alexander sees everything as just a struggle against the inevitable, which is death.
Thomas H ChurchThe fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph AddisonIt's about death as much as it is about life [on gardening]
Germaine GreerI don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.
Simon SchamaOn the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. - Cause of Death
Patricia CornwellI knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger AngellI'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George CarlinDeath is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W H AudenLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuMild disarray [on Labours election plans, following the death of the Pope]
Andrew MarrWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela DavisBeauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco(Of his own death) - so here it is at last, the distinguished thing
Henry JamesThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac SingerFor life is nearer every day to death
PhaedrusJames Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and though about life and death
Ian FlemingA coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.
Tupac ShakurI think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
Ruth RendellI could have another moan but I'm sick to death of my own whingeing.
Steve BruceNothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur KoestlerSlasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy shit, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.
Tara ReidAll has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
Anna AkhmatovaOnly in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]
Mike FergusonThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George SantayanaIf some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean De La BruyereWe will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
John BaconPeople fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
Jim MorrisonWe are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham GreeneThis mourning deeply marks France as well as every French person who identifies with the message of the Catholic Church. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Jacques ChiracDeath be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John DonneA citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
( Funeral oration on the death of George Washington.)
Henry LeeAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
Maurice MaeterlinckLife is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one (Pale Fire)
Vladimir NabokovThis is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy [on David Davis' pro death-penalty stance]
John MajorDeath and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven
MichelangeloPersonally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganBest while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)
John FletcherWhen I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan BehanDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
Colin PowellA new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles BrowerArt has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John
Boris PasternakIt is not cheery to think but nonetheless true that the older you get the closer you must come to Death.
Bell HooksThere is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
Fran LebowitzWhen you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
Paul StanleyAll interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life
Thomas MannThe fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusI got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and travelled on.
Louise ErdrichBecause I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
and Immortality..
Emily DickinsonThis is a terrible tragedy, not just for those who knew and cared for him, but also for political life in this country, which will be all the poorer. [on the death of Robin Cook]
David BlunkettGrumbling is the death of love.
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