Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death

Wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me

Life without the courage for death is slavery

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other