Henry Van Dyke

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

Bill Maher

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

Mark Twain

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

Ashley Montagu

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."

Tennessee Williams

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha

"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."

Samuel Butler

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

David Sarnoff

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it."

Marlene Dietrich

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

Leonardo da Vinci

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."

John Taylor

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper."

Robert Alton Harris

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."

Medgar Evers