I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause and death ensued the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun and might if the latter were of an aggravated character return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can because when you feel nothing it's just death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing and some of us unfortunately don't make it there and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom but thank God my bottom wasn't 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.

Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions both good and bad become transparent no longer limited by outward appearences.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.

Death does not concern us because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come we no longer exist.

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two some century or two but it is sure as life it is sure as death.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free makes no sense.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

For centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.