The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.