Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

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

In every parting there is an image of death.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.