“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.”
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“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!”
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”
“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.]”
“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
“For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.”
“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.”
“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.”
“No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.”
“I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.”
“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
“I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.”
“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?”
“It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.”
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”
“When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!”
“We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.”