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" Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. "

Alice Thomas Ellis

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" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. "

" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "

Mary Harris Jones

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? "

" The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. "

" Death is the tyrant of the imagination. "

" We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment. "

" Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. "

" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "

" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. "

" No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference. "

Musiq Soulchild

" 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, Sr.

" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "

" Give me liberty or give me death. "

" Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it. "

" I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct. "

" I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. "

Pope John XXIII

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. "

" Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "

" I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. "

" I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. "

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

" I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death. "