The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.