Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

19.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

21.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

22.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

30.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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.

Morris, Robert T.

32.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

33.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

34.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

36.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

38.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

39.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

40.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

42.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

43.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

45.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

46.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

47.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

48.

'Tis after death that we measure men.