Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

-Berger,John Peter
  In the New Statesman, 22/29 Dec.

All weddings are similar but every marriage is different. Death comes to everyone but one mourns alone.

-Berger,John Peter
  The White Bird,'The Storyteller'.

La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now There isn't grass to graze a cow Swarm over, Death!

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Continual Dew,'Slough'.

Icall heavenand earthtorecord thisdayagainst you, that Ihaveset before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 30:19.

And Samson said,Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slewat his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges16:30.

Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,Iwill lodge: thy peopleshall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the L do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDRuth1:16^17

Saul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions† I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel1:23^7.

   The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms107:18.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms116:8^11.

Precious in the sight of the L isthe death of his saints.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms116:15.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 5:3^5.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs14:12.

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 8:8.

   Love isstrong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 8:6^7.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 9:2.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Gwill wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the L hath spoken it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
OD ORDIsaiah 25:8.

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:15.

He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 53:8^9.