"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you." ~ Katharine Hepburn
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. The Independent, 1977
Death ends a life, but not a relationship. ~ Jack Lemmon
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods. ~ Socrates
Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. ~ Robin Williams
Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.~ Ernest Hemingway
Death is a graduation. When we’re taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we’re allowed to graduate.~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Death is birthing into another realm. ~ Therese Schroeder-Sheker
Death is what makes life an event. ~ Francis Ford Coppola
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. (La mort est belle. Elle seule donne a l'amour son vrai climat.)~ Jean Anouilh
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~ Winston Churchill
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home. ~ Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes
I personally want to “do” death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. ~ Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.~ Thomas Mann
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. ~ Seneca
