“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”
“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”
“It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.”
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”
“I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.”
“No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
“You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.”
“One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.”
“So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.”
“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
“I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.”
“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”
“It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.”
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.”
“We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.”
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
“Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.”
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”
“I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.”
“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”