Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

It is not death it is dying that alarms me.

Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily but good deeds live forever.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

My fear was not of death itself but a death without meaning.