Nothing is ever done in this world until men are willing to kill one another if it is not done.
--Shaw

Life is simply one continuous watch aggainst the menace of death.
--Remarque

Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans.
--Lenon

Death sits on every fence, stands behind every tree. Building walls and dormitories and chapels and churches won't keep death out; death looks in through the window, laughing, knowing every one of you. In the middle of the night you hear laughter under your window and someone calls your name. Go ahead, sing your psalms, burn pretty candles at the alter, say your evening prayers and your morning prayers, gather medicines in your cabinets, collect books in your libraries. Are you fasting, dear friend? Are you depriving yourself of sleep? He'll lend you a hand, our old friend the reaper, he'll strip you to the bones. Run, dear friend, run as fast as you can, death is giving a party in the fields.
--Hesse