Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended..
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night..
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God..
To be born is to start the journey towards death..
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth..
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last..
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die..
A love that dies has never lived..
The aims of life are the best defense against death..
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occu….
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal..
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming ne….
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair..
Death is just life's next big adventure..
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth..
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they ….
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death..
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personal….
There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to….
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die..
I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me..