“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”
“The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.”
“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.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy 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.”
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
“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.”
“I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”
“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
“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.”
“Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
“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.”
“All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”