The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatestgood.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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.
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.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.