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" Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. "

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" The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. "

" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "

" The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. "

" Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. "

Kurt Eichenwald

" I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death. "

Watkin Tudor Jones

" The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. "

" 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. "

" Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. "

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "

" Give me liberty or give me death. "

" The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. "

" Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome. "

" Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. "

" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

" I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. "

Giuseppe Garibaldi

" 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. "

" For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "

" Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' "

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. "

" Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. "

" Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate. "

" I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. "

" If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "

" Death is the cure for all diseases. "

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "