“Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.”

“The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

“As morning branded the sea, darkness fell away at the far side of the beach. I turned to follow it.”

Samuel R. Delany book The Einstein Intersection

“Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.”

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935–2010) Lebanese faqih

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Life — life — life! 'Tis the sole great thing
This side of death,
Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!”

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor

“Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

“Take me away from all this Death.”

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula

“To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation