Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

17.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

20.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

21.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

22.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

28.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

29.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

33.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

35.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

36.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

38.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

39.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

41.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

43.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

48.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

50.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John