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| Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. | | Havelock Ellis | |
| Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. | | Horace | |
| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. | | Horace | |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. | | Horace | |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | | Titus Maccius Plautus | |
| Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there | | John Dryden | |
| Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. | | Seneca | |
| The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living. | | Samuel Butler | |
| The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. | | Woody Allen | |
| The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. | | Thomas Hobbes | |
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| The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. | | Albert Einstein | |
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| The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good | | John Barrymore | |
| The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death | | Gore Vidal | |
