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" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "

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" The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. "

" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. "

" In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces. "

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

" We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. "

" Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "

" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "

J. B. Priestley

" And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. "

" Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. "

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. "

" 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. "

" The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. "

" Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? "

" Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. "

" You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I don't want to follow the herd. "

" Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. "

Francis Thompson

" We die only once, and for such a long time. "

" Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "

" Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside. "

" If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. "

Claude Vorilhon