All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Mark Twain

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. Jean Giraudoux

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Samuel Butler

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon, Essays

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. The Carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality Emily Dickinson

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Percival Arland Ussher

The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo Da Vinci

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather

Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Thomas Mann