Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death?

William Shakespeare

Be sure to live your life, because you are a long time dead.

Scottish Proverb

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Samuel Butler

They give birth astride of a grave. The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Becket

Way I see it, we're all on the Hindenburg, no use fighting over the window seat.

Richard Jeni

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.

Joshua Bruns

You see sir; death is an intellectual matter, but dying is pure pain.

John Steinbeck

I know one day I'll turn the corner and I won't be ready for it.

Jean-Michel Basqui

People, some good, some bad, but in the long run we come out even.

Jan Hittle

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

We are afraid to live, but scared to die.

Inderpal Bahra

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Euripides

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe