As a kid, all I thought about was death. Maurice Sendak on death
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. Ralph Fiennes on death
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. Nicolas Chamfort on death
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I on death
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Herodotus on death
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. Davy Crockett on death
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. Robert Benchley on death
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson on death
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. Wendell Berry on death
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it. Loretta Young on death
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. David Mamet on death
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Jessica Lange on death
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. Ken Kesey on death
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. Abu Bakr on death
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. Abu Bakr on death
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. David Attenborough on death
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tryon Edwards on death
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. Hugh Hefner on death
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. Dean Smith on death
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem on death