Lord Byron

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

Stewart Alsop

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."

Thomas Mann

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

Maurice Maeterlinck

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

Helen Keller

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

Kahlil Gibran

"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

William Penn

"For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"

Kahlil Gibran

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Edvard Munch

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

Erik H. Erikson

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

Mark Twain

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

Clarence Darrow

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

Willa Cather

"I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me."

Jack Cleary

"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

"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life."

John Muir

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."

Alice Walker

"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

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Susan Ertz

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

Euripides

"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."

Edward W. Howe