“Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
“Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.”
“In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.”
“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
“Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
“We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.”
“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet”
“We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.”
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.”
“All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.”
“There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.”
“Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?”
“I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.”
“Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.”
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
“A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.”
“O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.”
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!”
“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”
“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.”
“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
“There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.”
“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. [When asked how she has coped since husband's death.]”
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”
“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.”