„It's not death if you refuse it…
It is if you accept it.“

„I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."
"I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."
"I am your loyal servant and I just did."
"Refusal means death."
"Kill me then.“

—  William Goldman, kniha The Princess Bride

Zdroj: The Princess Bride

„To be a Jew in the twentieth century
Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse,
Wishing to be invisible, you choose
Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.
Accepting, take full life. Full agonies:
Your evening deep in labyrinthine blood
Of those who resist, fail, and resist: and God
Reduced to a hostage among hostages. The gift is torment.“

—  Muriel Rukeyser poet and political activist 1913 - 1980

To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century (1944)

„Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.“

—  Pierre Corneille, The Death of Pompey

Ma mort était ma gloire, et le destin m'en prive.
Cornélie, act III, scene iv.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)

„The fear of death is born with man, though this is the only thing that he knows is certain to happen to him. Attachment to material things makes man cling to life. When you chant the Name of the Divine, when you are one with the divine, you accept death. While you are attached to life and afraid of death, you die with that fear and that weight clinging to you. If you have attained liberation you are free from death (you accept the inevitable). You die without fear and by remembering the Name of God, your soul leaves the body free of that fear and attachment. If you are reborn, your soul is still free from that fear. If you die in "unity", you are free from rebirth, unless you will it.“

—  Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India

1 December 1982
Zdroj: The Teachings of Babaji, 1 December 1982.

„I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit

Zdroj: No Exit (1944)

„If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.“

—  Sidney Poitier American-born Bahamian actor, film director, author, and diplomat 1927

"Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Sidney-Poitier/1 O Magazine, October 2000

„I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.“

—  Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964

„They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.“

—  Iggy Pop American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor 1947

„There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement.“

—  Jean Tinguely Swiss painter and sculptor 1925 - 1991

reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 119
Quotes, 1960's, untitled statements in 'Zero 3', (1961)

„They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.“

—  Alan Moore, V jako Vendeta

Zdroj: V for Vendetta

„We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?“

—  Masashi Kishimoto Japanese manga artist 1974

„Live you can evade; death you cannot.“

—  Dean Koontz, kniha Brother Odd

Brother Odd

„You live you die and death not ends it.“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

An American Prayer (1978)
Varianta: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Kontext: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

„The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.“

—  Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

„Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.“

—  Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

„You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Treason (1988)

„The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.“

—  Thomas Keneally, kniha Schindler's Ark

Zdroj: Schindler's List

„Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.“

—  Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983

Section 36
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

„To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die“

—  Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923 - 2018

Kontext: Q: What can I do to overcome my fear of death? A: Attachment to the body causes fear of death. It is the strongest attachment. Even a newborn infant has this attachment. To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die. (p.39)