“Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.”
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
“When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.”
“All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.”
“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.”
“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”
“Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.”
“For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.”
“Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.”
“As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.”
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”
“Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.”
“He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.”
“To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.”
“My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.”
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
“Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.”
“Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.”
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
“To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.”
“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.”
“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.”
“To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.”
“Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.”
“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
“He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.”
“We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.”