The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
There is death in the pot
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
There is no god but death.
“I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.”
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Death doesn't really worry me that much, i'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens
I foresee death by culture shock.
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
The only alternative which every American thinks of is liberty or death.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Death is a fearful thing.