An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
- Tacrus
And behold this day I am going the way of all the earth.
- Old Testament: Joshua
And thou, most kind and gentle death waiting to hush our latest breath O Praise Him-Alleluia! Thou leadest home the child of God and Christ our Lord the way hath trod.
- St. Francis of Assisi
And to the faithful, death the gate of life.
- John Milton
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Because I could not stop for Death-he kindly stopped for me-the carriage held but just Ourselves-and Immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Christianity has made of death a terror that was unknown to the gay calmness of Pagans.
- Ouida
Coming to the end of spring my grandmother kicks off her shoes steps out of her faltering body.
- Betsy Sholl
Death and taxes are certain, but death isn't an annual event.
- Unknown
Death either destroys us or unmasks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden is gone; if destruction, nothing at all awaits us, blessings and curses are abolished.
- Seneca
Death has shaken out the sands of my glass.
- John G. C. Brainard
Death has so many doors to let out life.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
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 helps us to see what is worth trusting and loving and what is a waste of time.
- J. Neville Ward
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
- Edna O'Brien
Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides
Death is a law, not a punishment.
- Jean Baptiste Dubos
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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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