We are against the death penalty not only in word, but really against the death penalty.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?