I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's because they have to deal with death 10 times over year after year.

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

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can because when you feel nothing it's just death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing and some of us unfortunately don't make it there and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

If you live a life of make-believe your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me sailing the open ocean is a real challenge because it's life or death.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

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.

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.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Death does not concern us because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come we no longer exist.

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two some century or two but it is sure as life it is sure as death.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.