When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.