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

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

2010 has been awesome. I got to write on the David Hasselhoff Roast this summer, and that's always been a dream.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

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