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| The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. | | Will Durant | |
| The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. | | Samuel Goldwyn | |
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| The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. | | Pericles | |
| The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day | | George Eliot | |
| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? | | Woody Allen | |
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| Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. | | Wilson Mizner | |
| To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. | | Samuel Butler | |
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| To die will be an awfully big adventure. | | Aristotle | |
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| Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. | | William Saroyan | |
| We die only once, and for such a long time. | | Moliere | |
| We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. | | Jane Austen | |
| When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. | | W. C. Fields | |
| Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. | | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | |
