I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

One can survive everything nowadays except death and live down everything except a good reputation.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch which hurts and is desired.