The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Che Guevara
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. George Carlin
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. Henry David Thoreau
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. George Carlin
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. Tupac Shakur
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus