All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. – Maurice Maeterlinck
To himself everyone is 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 us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. – David Sarnoff
Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon, Essays
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. – Euripides
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. – Willa Cather
Death is a distant rumor to the young. – Andrew A. Rooney
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. – Jean de La Fontaine
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. – Attributed to George Carlin
Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. – Kularnava
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. – Erik H. Erikson
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. – Herodotus
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. – Tennessee Williams, “The Rose Tattoo”
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. – Madame de Stael
