“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.”
“Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.”
“There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.”
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
“I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.”
“When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.”
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”
“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
“How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?”
“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”
“Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”
“Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.”
“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
“Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.”
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.”
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
“Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.”
“Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
“The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.”
“Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.”