There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.