If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
Abraham Lincoln – Death, Fear
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt – Death
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel García Marquez – Death
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen on death
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
Samuel Butler on Birth and death
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
Albert Camus – Death, Life
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die’- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
Death and Life
We knew about death as children learn about death. Death came to sick people. Death came from accidents, horses, trucks, broken heads, cops’ clubs, gang fights – and sickness. But only the old died, we thought. Death was for the aged, a phantom without a calling card.
We knew about death
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come
Shakespeare on death and men
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
