This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this... →
Joseph Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think... →
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not... →
A. S. Byatt