Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (June, 1944)

I'll probably be popped off by some loony. His reply when asked in the 1960's how he expected he would die.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.