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" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

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" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "

" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "

Dag Hammarskjold

" The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. "

" When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in. "

" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. "

" Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. "

" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. "

Lois McMaster Bujold

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

" The fear of death comes from limited awareness. "

" Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. "

" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "

" All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat. "

" To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "

" 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. "

" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "

" 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

" No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually. "

" I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. "

" There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. "

" I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. "

" The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. "

Martin O'Malley

" The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. "

" Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. "

" I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come. "

Harbhajan Singh

" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "