"I think my own death will be the least sad one I'll ever encounter. For me at least."

"And yet why did things live? What got them through it really? What made them make all these efforts, when death lay in wait at the end for every one of them?"

"...he did not fear death, he feared dying and believed that knowledge of the difference between the two was the true wellspring of courage."

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”

"Looking defenseless and being defenseless were two very different things in Dark Space, and mistaking the one for the other could make you dead."

"The dead get deader, you know, as every trace of their existence is expunged."

"...living in the past was just another way of dying in the present."

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living, or get busy dying."

"Life you may evade, but death you shall not."

"Death doesn't frighten me any more than going to sleep or that time before I was born does."

"Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse."

"I am not afraid of death. But I'm also not staring it in the face right now either."

"As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie --

--through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. --

--Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"You can't change the date of your birth, but the date of your death is slightly more flexible."

"The worst thing about going to funerals, is that you know that you'll be going to at least one more."