Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Aeschylus
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. Jessamyn West
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer. Tom Araya
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Jerry Saltz
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. Lynn Redgrave
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Laing
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. Kevin Spacey
Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. Jerry Seinfeld
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Jean Paul
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer