“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”– Bertolt Brecht Related Quotes “Death is softer by far than tyranny.”– Aeschylus “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”– Clarence Darrow “If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.”– David Mitchell