“Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.”

“Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.”

“Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.”

“A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.”

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”

“Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.”

“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”

“If we live a life full of regret, full of things we haven't done, if we've lived an unfulfilled life, when death comes along, it's a lot worse. I think it's true for all of us.”