“Who knows what death is? Maybe life is nothing more than a beam of light passing slowly over our changing faces”

“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”

“They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”

“We die only once, and for such a long time.”

“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”

“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”