If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Elie Wiesel

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Ron White