Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

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.

Life is doubt and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what we know not where.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

There's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives and even if there is nothing beyond death we shall differ in our nothingness.

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

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?

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than 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.

Death is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit then nothing can be more redemptive.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.