As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. – Blaise Pascal
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. – Soren Kierkegaard
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. – Michelangelo
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. – Blaise Pascal
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. – Carl Jung
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. – Arthur Schopenhauer
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. – Michelangelo
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. – Jackie Kennedy
In every parting there is an image of death. – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. – Blaise Pascal
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . – Woody Allen
When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
