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. Martin Heidegger on death
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. Robert Green Ingersoll on death
I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. Anthony Hopkins on death
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper on death
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. David Herbert Lawrence on death
Love has no age, no limit and no death. John Galsworthy on death
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace on death
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Horace on death
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar N. Bradley on death
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on death
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan on death
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry on death
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. Michel de Montaigne on death
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne on death
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Amelia Barr on death
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. Tennessee Williams on death
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne on death
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May on death
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. Eric Cantona on death
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll on death