Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J. K. Rowling
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. Heinrich Heine
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. Isabel Allende
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' Christopher Hitchens
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. Christopher Hitchens
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fear of death comes from limited awareness. Deepak Chopra
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? Deepak Chopra
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. Deepak Chopra
All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards. Katie Price
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. Rick Perry
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Charles Caleb Colton
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. Elie Wiesel
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. J. K. Rowling
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Tecumseh