To some extent I liken slavery to death. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. – John Keats
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – John Keats
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. – George Santayana
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. – Fidel Castro
Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings! – Dwight L. Moody
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. – Guru Nanak
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot
Life is but a moment, death also is but another. – Robert H. Schuller
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling. – Honore de Balzac
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. – William Butler Yeats
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. – Miyamoto Musashi
