Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

A useless life is an early death.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.