The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. Dean Koontz
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. Eric Hoffer
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. Bill Shankly
Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Angel Ruiz
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. Paul McCartney
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Paul McCartney
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. George Whitefield
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. Desmond Tutu
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. Ovid
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. Gwyneth Paltrow
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. Stanislav Grof
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. Doug Coupland
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. Theodor Adorno