The sole equality on earth is death.
- Philip J. Bailey
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
The worst is death, and death will have his day.
- Shakespeare
Then Abraham gave up the ghost….and was gathered to his people.
- Old Testament: Genesis
There is a remedy for everything but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
- Cervantes
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
- Seneca
This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest.
- Shakespeare
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
- Stevie Smith
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
- Sir Thomas Browne
To die quickly is a privilege; I shall die by inches.
- Amiel
To himself every one is an immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds u of a falling star; one of the million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We are secretly more terrified of death now than in medieval times. It is the one aspect of life, so to speak, that civilization has not improved.
- Peter Watson
We die before we have learned to live.
- Stephen Winstein
We die only once, and for such a long time.
- Moliere
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