Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
Red Skelton

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan Sontag

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee Williams

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Tennessee Williams

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de Montaigne