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"death may be the greatest of all human blessings." »Socrates
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"No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death." »Alfred Tennyson
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"Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me." »Epictetus
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world." »Mark Twain
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"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." »William Blake
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." »J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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"However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable." »Eric Hoffer
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"Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral." »Andrew Schneider
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come." »William Shakespeare
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
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"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away death really hates that" »Matt Frewer
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"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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"I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through." »Sybil Adelman
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"A 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 Hendrickson Brower
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"death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish." »Sophocles, Electra
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"death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish." »Sophocles
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"What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind." »William Wordsworth
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"I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember." »Andrew Schneider
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity." »George Santayana
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"death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it." »Sophocles
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"death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it." »Sophocles, Electra
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"What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind." »William Wordsworth
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"human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human." »William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html
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"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." »Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death"
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." »J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
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"We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us." »Seneca
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"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live." »Sir Thomas Brown
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