For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. Aeschylus on death
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on death
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber on death
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Havelock Ellis on death
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. Jon Stewart on death
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. Paul Ryan on death
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold on death
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov on death
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards on death
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. Stanislav Grof on death
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live. Jean de la Bruyere on death
Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. Stevie Nicks on death
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. Terry Pratchett on death
Death was like love, a romantic escape. Brigitte Bardot on death
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? Brigitte Bardot on death
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. Hedy Lamarr on death
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. Eugene Ionesco on death
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. Stanislav Grof on death
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. Bodhidharma on death
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. Sting on death