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" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "

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" Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. "

" It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. "

" It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. "

Terry Pratchett

" Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. "

" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

" Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. "

Marcus Aurelius

" What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. "

" Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. "

" I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "

" Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. "

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" 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

" Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. "

" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

Daniel Berrigan

" I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. "

" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "

" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "

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

" We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. "

Matthew Simpson

" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

George Whitefield

" Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. "

" If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. "

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

" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. "

" We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. "