If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, except when it comes as a stranger.
- Francis Quarles
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
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moved on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
- Henry Miller
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
- Paul Tillich
In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides the answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
- Dag Hammarskjold
It cost a lot of money to die comfortably.
- Samuel Butler
It hath often been said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
- Henry Fielding
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- Jonathan Swift
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
It is uncertain where death may await thee, therefore expect it everywhere.
- Seneca
It's astonishing how important a man becomes whe he dies.
- Yiddish Saying
It's only another adventure, after all.
- Dorothy Eden
Let the dead bury their dead.
- New Testament: Luke
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even grater one.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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