Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Herodotus

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

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Marquis de Sade

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Aeschylus

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Aeschylus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Aeschylus

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I