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" Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. "

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" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "

" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "

" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. "

William Shakespeare

" Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. "

Terry Pratchett

" Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. "

" The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. "

" Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. "

" The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. "

" Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. "

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

" Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. "

Pope John Paul II

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

" There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. "

" Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. "

" Money gives me pleasure all the time. "

" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. "

" At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. "

George Harrison

" Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. "

" 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

" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "

" 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

" We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. "

" 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

" Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. "

" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "

" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "

" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "

" The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. "

" In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam