Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. – Socrates
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! – Patrick Henry
Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven. – Confucius
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. – Aristotle
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. – Tecumseh
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. – Lao Tzu
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. – Jim Morrison
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. – Che Guevara
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. – Socrates
