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

Francis Bacon

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Al Capone

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

A dog's loyalty is a bond that transcends time, distance, and even death.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Victor Hugo

Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Emily Dickinson

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Alfred Nobel

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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

Mark Twain

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti – freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Swami Vivekananda

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Mary Shelley

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Anne Boleyn

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Mary Baker Eddy