"Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war."

"I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'"

"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."

"Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals."

"Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal."

"I am not the least afraid to die"

"The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"

"To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."

"You have to die a few times before you can really live."

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality."

"We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto."

"> Why does everything that lives have to die? < So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious."

"My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"

"The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal."

"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."

"The fans are dying. We're dying."

"We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?"

"Death was like love, a romantic escape."