Without fullness of experience length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death.

The sole equality on earth is death.

We are weak writing is difficult but for my own sake I do not regret this journey which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships help one another and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Disease insanity and death were the angels that attended my cradle and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Yes people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary and delay means more death and horror.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

If you make every game a life and death proposition you're going to have problems. For one thing you'll be dead a lot.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment but there is death in them at the end.

You can cry about death and very properly so your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable but it has always been inevitable if you see what I mean.

There is no harm in patience and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God and your sorrow will be lessened.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid even to think of it.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper without interrupting our breakfast numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death but then I'm in no hurry.

The enemy fought with savage fury and met death with all its horrors without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

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