Man has given a false importance to death. Any animal, plant or man who dies adds to Nature's compost heap, becomes the manure without which nothing could grow, nothing could be created. Death is simply part of the process.
- Peter Weiss
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
My breath hovers over the river of God. Softly I set my foot on the path to my long home.
- Else Lasker-Schuler
No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death.
- Tennyson
No young man believes he will ever die.
- William Hazlitt
Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
- Socrates
Not death is dreadful, but a shameful death.
- Menander
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth.
- Old Testament: 1 Kings
Oh write of me, not "Died in bitter pains," but "emigrated to another star!"
- Helen Hunt Jackson
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!
- John Donne
Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks at the poor man's cottage and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace
Perhaps our fear of death is but embryonic fear of life.
- Dagobert D. Runes
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