Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche

If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

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

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare