Death
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. But men fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils.
SocratesThere was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIf you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George BurnsDeath is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. SachsThe killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.
Craig VolkDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EpicurusThe report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark TwainDeath is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SophoclesI am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
Diane Frolov and Andrew SchneiderIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan SwiftFor three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny CarsonFor certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad GitaThe dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster BujoldOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody AllenAs men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius SyrusThe fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
Robin Green and Mitchell BurgessThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody AllenNever knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
Matt FrewerI am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
Hugh ElliottMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoWhen I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
Aaron McGruderIt's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
Pamela RibonI guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
Randy K. MilhollandIt is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenWe do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud