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" When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. "

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" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "

" Give me liberty or give me death. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. "

" The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). "

" I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

Terry Pratchett

" Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. "

" Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. "

James Anthony Froude

" Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. "

Ernest Hemingway

" A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. "

" I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. "

" Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. "

" No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. "

" Give the peasants neither life nor death. "

Ieyasu Tokugawa

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

" I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. "

Clarence Darrow

" In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. "

Jonathan Larson

" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "

" You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. "

" 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

" The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. "

" The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. "

Ramana Maharshi

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

" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "

George Santayana

" My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. "

" Life without Liberty is far worse than death. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "