There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

I discovered that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. Foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same... we all die and are soon forgotten.

“Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.” 

“I feel it urgent to state that, if the family is the sanctuary of life, the place where life is conceived and cared for, it is a horrendous contradiction when it becomes a place where life is rejected and destroyed. So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right to one’s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the “property” of another human being. The family protects human life in all its stages, including its last. Consequently, “those who work in healthcare facilities are reminded of the moral duty of conscientious objection. Similarly, the Church not only feels the urgency to assert the right to a natural death, without aggressive treatment and euthanasia”, but likewise firmly rejects the death penalty.” 

“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.” 

“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.” 

“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates” 

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” 

“A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?” 

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.” 

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

To say goodbye is to die a little.

I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.

(A tough one) There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man, to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature.

Because we’re the only animals who not only die but are conscious of it even while it happens, we are beset by anxiety.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

One thing I know: all the works of mortal man lie under sentence of mortality; we live among things that are destined to perish.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Death is necessary and cannot be avoided. I mean, where am I going to go to get away from it?