Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose peace and whose refuge are for us all. The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
- Mark Twain
Death, who sets all free, hath paid his ransom now, and full discharge.
- Milton
Death: A fate worse than life.
- J. J. Furnas
Death: a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
- J. J. Furnas
Death: The debt you pay nature.
- From the Latin
Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
Death…pale priest of the mute people.
- Robert Browning
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects had to be undone.
- Lisa Alther
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
- Frank Yerby
Far happier are the dead, methinks than they who look for death, and fear it every day.
- Cowper
For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light. I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear.
- Greek Epigram
For rain it hath a friendly sound to ne who's six feet under ground; and scarce the friendly voice or face, a grave is such a quiet place.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
God have mercy, that such a young man should have to chew the black earth!
- Gluckel of Hamen
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