Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

The goal of all life is death.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

An answer is always a form of death.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.