Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

Do not rejoice over anyone's death; remember that we all must die.

Hardest of deaths to a mortal Is the death he sees ahead.

It is as natural to die as to be born.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

We must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.