It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

The sole equality on earth is death.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.