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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.