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- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. — Samuel Johnson
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
- All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. — Alvar N. C. de Vaca
- Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. — Alvar N. C. de Vaca
- Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. — Alvar N. C. de Vaca