"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good." - PlatoTweet
"There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change." - Isabelle AdjaniTweet
"Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane." - John CusackTweet
"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me." - Steven MorrisseyTweet
"Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death." - Cat StevensTweet
"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes." - Joseph StalinTweet
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." - Isaac Bashevis SingerTweet
"Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die." - Emily MortimerTweet
"I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness." - George FoxTweet
"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." - E. M. ForsterTweet