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Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill on death

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke on death

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker on death

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler on death

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace on death

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon on death

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus on death

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold on death

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson on death

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus on death

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron on death

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams on death

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden on death

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz on death

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe on death

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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis on death

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather on death

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