For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
Jack Nicholson

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross