In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.