Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. – Quintus Ennius
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. – Clarence Darrow
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. – Katharine Hepburn
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. – Elie Wiesel
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Man always dies before he is fully born. – Erich Fromm
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. – T. S. Eliot
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. – W. Somerset Maugham
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. – Elie Wiesel
Call no man happy till he is dead. – Aeschylus
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr
Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns. – Bryant H. McGill
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus
