“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.”
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a 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.”
“Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.”
“Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.”
“Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
“Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.”
“In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.”
“In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.”
“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
“Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
“We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
“The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet”
“We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.”
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
“Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.”
“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.”