Death

"Death is a distant rumor to the young"
-Andrew A. Rooney

"Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame"
-George Gordon


"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath"
-John Donne


"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity"
-Seneca


"Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away"
-Horace

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"
-Socrates

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go"
-Jean de La Fontaine


"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time"
-George Carlin


"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"
-Erik H. Erikson


"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon"
-Susan Ertz

"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men"
-Herodotus

"Death is a debt we all must pay"
-Euripides

"People living deeply have no fear of death"
-Anaiïs Nin

"Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor"
-Homer


"Death is the surest calculation that can be made"
-Ludwig Büchner


"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit"
-Bill Maher


"Suicide is the sincerest form of criticism life gets"
-Wilfred Sheed


"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"
-J.K. Rowling


"Death
As a dark Shadow
Beckons his prey
Into the unknown
By a soft whisper
In the soul"
-Cindy Cheney

"Death doesn't bargain"
-August Strindberg

"Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark"
-Bertrand Russell

"With death comes honesty"
-Salman Rushdie

"Death is when the monsters get you"
-Stephen King

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"
-Bertolt Brecht