Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
The goal of all life is death.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Of men who reach my tale of years Who least has cause to make his moan? He who has learnt to banish fears, Who lives and dies unknown.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
A useless life is an early death.
