The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. Soren Kierkegaard
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. Michelangelo
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. Soren Kierkegaard
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Lord Byron
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. Robert Green Ingersoll
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. Chuck Palahniuk
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. Samuel Butler
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. Jackie Kennedy
In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot
It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil
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. George Eliot