What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. Henry Van Dyke
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. Jerry Garcia
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. Jean Paul
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. Douglas MacArthur
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. W. Somerset Maugham
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. Jean Racine
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. Paul Simon
In every death, a busy world comes to an end. Mason Cooley
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. William Hazlitt
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. Sophocles
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Thomas Aquinas