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" 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. "

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" Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body. "

Dalai Lama

Change

Body

Clothes

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" The goal of all life is death. "

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

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

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

" England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. "

" I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old. "

" Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. "

" There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus. "

" Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. "

" Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. "

Dean Inge

Love

World

" I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. "

" Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it. "

" The idea is to die young as late as possible. "

" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

Mattie Stepanek

Place

Sad

" 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

Natural

Human Being

Human

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

" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Character

Jury

Judges

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

" I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. "

" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" 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

Father

I Am

" 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. "

" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "

" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "

Plato

Things

All Things