Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra

The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud

Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison