„Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„[On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know? (Coolidge was well-known for being a man of very few words.)“
— Dorothy Parker
„The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.“
— Terry Pratchett
„…do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? …Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.“
— Socrates
„She has been condemned to death by hanging. A manmay escape this death by becoming the hangman, awoman by marrying the hangman. But at the presenttime there is no hangman; thus there is no escape.There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This isnot fantasy, it is history.“
— Margaret Atwood