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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.
Mishima, Yukio

The first condition of immortality is death.
Author, Unknown

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Twain, Mark

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

Not going home is already like death.
Author, Unknown

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Twain, Mark

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Whitman, Walt

The goal of all life is death.
Freud, Sigmund

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maeterlinck, Maurice

I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Galdos, Benito Perez

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
Collins, Mortimer

Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings
Epicurus

If we don't know life, how can we know death
Confucius

He can be lethal death.
Coleman, Jerry

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Twain, Mark

I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death. Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.
Adelman, Sybil

Here at last. We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built. Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Plath, Sylvia

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Rooney, Andy

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
Mencken, H.L.

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
Furnas, J.J.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Allen, Woody

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Allen, Woody

Death is a debt we all must pay.
Euripides

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
Fontaine, Jean de La

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
Proust, Marcel

What is it about death that bothers me so much? Probably the hours.
Allen, Woody

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
McLaughlin, Mignon

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
Aeschylus

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
Vinci, Leonardo da

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
Salinger, J. D.

Men die, but does Cloquet die? This question puzzled him, but a few simple line drawings on a pad done by one of the guards set the whole thing clear.
Allen, Woody

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Ertz, Susan

There are worst things than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean.
Allen, Woody

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Montagu , Ashley

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
Harris, Robert Alton

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Allen, Woody

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

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Whittier, John Greenleaf

Repetition is the death of art.
Author, Unknown

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Allen, Woody

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
Allen, Woody

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Alsop, Stewart

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
Shirley, James

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
Leary, Denis

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Whitman, Walt

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Allen, Woody