If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
- Kahlil Gibran
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
- Andrew Jackson
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!
- John Donne
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but so far as death is concerned we men all live in a city without walls.
- Epicurus
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of all baseness, and of cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
- Epictetus
Death is the universal salt of states.
- P.J. Bailey
Death hath not only particular stars in heaven, but malevolent places on earth, which single out our infirmities and strike at our weaker parts.
- Sir Thomas Browne
Death…pale priest of the mute people.
- Robert Browning
Death, so it be glorious? Tis a sunset.
- Byron
Death, kind Nature's signal of retreat.
- Samuel Johnson
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Death, however, is a spongy wall, is a sticky river, is nothing at all.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Death is but a name, a date, a milestone by the stormy road, where you may lay aside your load and bow your face and rest and wait, defying fear, defying fate.
- Joaquin Miller
Death is but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God.
- Thomas Parnell
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the sea; they live in one another still.
- William Penn
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
- Seneca
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
- Publilius Syrus
Death is the veil which those who live call life; they sleep, and it is lifted.
- Shelley
Death is the ugly fact which nature has to hide and she hides it well.
- Alexander Smith
Death is an angel with two faces; to us he turns a face of terror, blighting all things fair; the other burns with glory of the stars, ad love is there.
- T. C. Williams
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