I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.~ ~ Agatha Christie

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.~ ~ Elizabeth Arden

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.~ ~ Richard Bach

If it’s natural to kill why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~ ~ Joan Baez

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ~ ~ James Matthew Barrie

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.~ ~ Dion Boucicault

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.~ ~ Albert Camus

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.~ ~ Josef de Maistre

No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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.~ ~ John Donne

Men create war to compete with women, who create life.~ ~ Sharon Doubiago

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.~ ~ Tryon Edwards

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.~ ~ Epicurus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.~ ~ Susan Ertz

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.~ ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.~ ~ P. J. O'Rourke

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.~ ~ Adolf Hitler

T'is after death that we measure men.~ ~ James Barron Hope

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ~ ~ John James Ingalls

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.~ ~ Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.~ ~ G. W. Leibniz

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.~ ~ Rush Limbaugh

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.~ ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.~ ~ Charles Mackay

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.~ ~ William Somerset Maugham

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.~ ~ Don Marquis

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.~ ~ John Milton

The idea is to die young as late as possible.~ ~ Ashley Montagu

The dead have nothing except the memory they’ve left.~ ~ Ferenc Molnár

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals, to die like angels.~ ~ Mother Teresa

I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.~ ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.~ ~ Edvard Munch

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?~ ~ Holly Near

During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?~ ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief.~ ~ Arthur Schnitzler

Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody.~ ~ J. D. Salinger

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.~ ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.~ ~ George Bernard Shaw

There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.~ ~ Agnes Smedley

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.~ ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.~ ~ Hunter S. Thompson

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.~ ~ James Thurber

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.~ ~ Tennessee Williams