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.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Man is born in a day and he dies in a day and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.

Death not merely ends life it also bestows upon it a silent completeness snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

But when I lose my temper I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical which may be masochistic of me.

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.

On the plus side death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I had reasoned this out in my mind there was one of two things I had a right to liberty or death if I could not have one I would have the other.

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.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

When we have lost everything including hope life becomes a disgrace and death a duty.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

We all pay for life with death so everything in between should be free.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.