The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.