The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Death 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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You’re left feeling rudderless.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Once you’ve stared death in the face, every day is a good day.
I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
The goal of all life is death.
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It’s killing our oceans. It’s entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.
The sole equality on earth is death.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
