We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

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

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

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