"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth." ― Ernest Hemingway Topic(s): Death Tags: death, increases More From Ernest Hemingway "Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination." "There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention." "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other." More In Death "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."― Florence Nightingale "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."― Bob Dylan "Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life."― Jeanne Moreau