Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Loved. You can not use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else. But it is inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

I am very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you are going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

It is an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems do not try to make it posthumous.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it is because you are sweating to death.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

The sole equality on earth is death.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.