Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause..
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me..
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet..
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system..
So love the thought of death, love it..
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life..
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is i….
Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, ….
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationsh….
Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the i….
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old..
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation..
Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking….
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, return….
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afr….
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ….
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death..
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man..
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species..
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death..
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!.