The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

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

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.