It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

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