Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.
Paul Alexander Baran
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Albom, Mitch
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Karl Georg Bchner
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Karl Georg Bchner
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
Aneurin Bevan
The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.
Karl Barth
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.
Anthony Burgess
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Hans Christian Andersen
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
Albom, Mitch
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
Miguel de Cervantes