God's fingers touch'd him, and he slept.
- Tennyson
He is not dead! He only left a precious robe of clay behind, to draw a robe of love and light around his disembodied mind.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
He that dies this year is quit for the next.
- Shakespeare
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
- Cato the Censor
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses, that she cannot see or smell?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Heaven gives its favorites-early death.
- Byron
I am afraid to think about my death, when it shall be and whether, in great pain I shall rise up and fight the air for breath or calmly wait the bursting of my brain.
- James Elroy Flecker
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I have only one curiosity left: death.
- Coco Chanel
I know for sure that at the end, the playful stranger who appears is not death but love.
- Kathleen Norris
I shall be like that tree---I shall die at the top.
- Jonathan Swift
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss; because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
- May Sarton
If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
- Etty Hillesum
If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil.
- Jean De La Bruyere
If there wasn't death I think you couldn't go on.
- Stevie Smith
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