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.
- Stewart Alsop
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
- Buddha
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- Willa Cather
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I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.
- Jack Cleary
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
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When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
- Henry Van Dyke
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
- Epicurus
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides
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You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
- Medgar Evers
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Kahlil Gibran
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For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
- Kahlil Gibran
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You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
- Robert Alton Harris
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
- Bill Maher
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- William Somerset Maugham
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
- John Taylor
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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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.
- Mark Twain
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams
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