Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

He must have made that before he died.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

“In the good days remember also death.”

“Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.”

“But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.”

“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.”

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."

"It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do."

"Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice."

"Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life."