Death is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

I mean whatever kills you kills you and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

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.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person he was so excited about having a child.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential just as colonialism did.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.