“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”

“To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.”

“While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.”

“Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!”

“The chief difficulty in designing small houses is to avoid an excessive appearance of height. …the ridge-dormer or its equivalent, the ridge skylight, would open a whole new field of opportunity…”

“In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with
wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the
hangman.”

“Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”