There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Death is a fearful thing.
