I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!. . . These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Death is the mother of forms.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
If I love something, I wear it to death!
In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.
Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
