The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe.... →
Steven Pinker
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection... →
John Piper
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of... →
Luigi Pirandello
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can... →
Brad Pitt
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the... →
Plautus