The goal of all life is death.
- Sigmund Freud

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
- Author Unknown

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery.  He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does.  In place of this we have death.
- Charles Sanders Peirce

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
- Ernest Hemingway

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
- Ludwig Büchner

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
- H.L. Mencken

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
- Che Guavara

I wouldn’t mind dying – it’s the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
- R. Geis

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J.K. Rowling

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
- Plato

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

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
- Mortimer Collins

When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
- Marlene Dietrich

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
- Homer

I want a priest a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman.  I want to hedge my bets.
- Wilson Mizner

Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Every man dies Not every man really lives.
- William Ross Wallace