“The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.”
“The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.”
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.”
“Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''”
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
“It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.”
“I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.”
“A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.”
“Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.”
“Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
“All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye”
“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.”
“To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!”
“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.”
“One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
“The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.”
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
“Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.”
“To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.”
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
“I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.”