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- And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death.
- PJ O'Rourke
- Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, 'Where's my clean socks?' no-one answers.
- Terry Pratchett, "Eric"
- "A penny for your thoughts?"
"A dollar for your death." - Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
- Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound...
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats. - Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
- Rather, she [Death] simply is the Ultimate Hostess who tells you when your table's ready. It's up to other powers what section you're seated in (smoking or non-smoking).
- John C. Straffin
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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