Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action…

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate…

— Richard Eberhart

“His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.”

— Ravi Zacharias

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

— Arundhati Roy

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's…

— R. Scott Bakker

“For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is…

— Julian Barnes

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

— Hannibal

“Why don’t we all live for a longer time? On mountainsides in California and Nevada there are pine trees that were alive when Julius…

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

— Nancy Byrd Turner

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that,…

— Emma Thompson

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in…

— Esther Dyson

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien