Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.