“Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.”

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?

We give each other a smile with a future in it.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.