The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I'm gonna live till I die.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

In the long run we are all dead.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

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

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.