•“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” 
― Herbert Hoover

•“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” 
― Norman Cousins

•“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” 
― Oscar Wilde

•“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” 
― Marcus Aurelius

•“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.” 
― Tom Robbins

•“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not.” 
― Epicurus

•“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” 
― Horace Mann

•“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.” 
― Jim Carroll

•“Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.” 
― R.A. Salvatore

•“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.” 
― Simon Van Booy

•“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.” 
― Ray Bradbury

•“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” 
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

•“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” 
― Isaac Asimov

•“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” 
― Thomas Mann

•“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” 

•“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.” 
― Guy de Maupassant

•“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.” 
― Mitch Albom

•“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.” 
― Richard Wright

•“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.” 
― Rabindranath Tagore

•“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.” 
― Terry Pratchett

•“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.” 
― Jasper Fforde

•“Death is too inevitable not to defy, life too fearful and uncertain to embrace.” 
― Bauvard

•“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” 
― Mother Jones

•“Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead” 
― Neil Gaiman

•“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.” 
― E.B. White

•“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” 
― Neale Donald Walsch

•“Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.” 
― Santosh Kalwar

•“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.” 
― Hans Christian Andersen

•“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.” 
― Margaret Atwood

•“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.” 
― Tennessee Williams

•“They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” 
― Steve Jobs

•“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.” 
― Yann Martel

•“All good things pass away.” 
― Philip Pullman

•“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.” 
― Socrates

•“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.” 
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

•“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.” 
― Jorge Luis Borges

•“Some men die for lack of love... some men die because of it. ” 
― Anne Bishop

•“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” 
― Terry Pratchett

•“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” 
― George Gordon Byron

•“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” 
― Mark Twain

•“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.” 
― Mitch Albom

•“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” 
― Jimi Hendrix

•“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” 
― Arthur Schopenhauer

•“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” 
― J.K. Rowling