“We are closest to life when we are vying with death”

“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”

“Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.”

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.”

“When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!”

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”