The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, i'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens