Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
~ John Donne
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
~ Sigmund Freud
You have to learn to do everything even to die.
~ Gertrude Stein
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen
Oh death you can wait keep your distance.
~ Andre Chenier
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
~ William Shakespeare
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
~ Alan Gregg
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
~ Jerzy Kosiński
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
~ Samuel Butler
Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.
~ Anonymous
In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
~ Edwin Way Teale
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
~ Thomas Mann
I hate funerals and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
~ Robert T. Morris
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
~ Lytton Strachey
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
~ Ernest Becker
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.
~ Aldous Huxley
I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
~ Jewish Proverb
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
~ Archibald Macleish
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
~ Charles Mackay
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
~ Frangois Rabelais
It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.
~ Arlen Specter
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
~ Bertrand Russell
Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
~ Eileen Myles
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
~ Will Self
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
~ Oscar Wilde
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
~ Steven Pinker
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
~ Dustin Hoffman
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
~ Alexander The Great
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
~ Jon Porter
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
~ Matthew Arnold
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
~ Homer
I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.
~ Drake
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
~ Redd Foxx
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
~ Epicurus
