In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death and to deny one is to deny the other.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you it's much more serious than that.

When the will defies fear when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Death they say acquits us of all obligations.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by 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.

For those who seek to understand it death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Pale death with impartial step knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Creation destroys as it goes throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death multiply itself million upon million rear up city upon city save every parasite alive until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast including living life too fast that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time I make sure I leave early enough.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

If I take death into my life acknowledge it and face it squarely I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Prepare for death if here at night you roam and sign your will before you sup from home.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins not in my dying.