Everywhere pain, disease and death—death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths. Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child—death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things?
A good death does honor to a whole life.
If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.
Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death.
How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.
It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.