There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

There is no lonelier man in death except the suicide than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Look I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs you've got to jump around a lot for life is the very opposite of death and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully or you're not alive.

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.

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

I am not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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.

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

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college getting an entry level magazine job at 21 working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

I heard on public radio recently there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy uncomfortable unpleasant thing.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.