“I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death suits me well! If my adorable Isolde were to go on being the death of me in this fashion I would woo death everlasting!”

“Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.”

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

“Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not affraid of dying and going to hell or (what would be considered worse) going to a popularized version of heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.”

“My mother whom I adored, secretly wasted away and died of grief…; her death…marked me for life.”

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again … To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.”

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

“I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.”