Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

16.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

18.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

21.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

22.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

23.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

24.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

28.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

31.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

34.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

35.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

36.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

38.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

39.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

40.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

41.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.