I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.