Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.
—Laozi
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
—Laozi
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
—Aldous Huxley
Someday death will take us to another star.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
—Franz Kafka
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.
—Georg Hegel
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
—Plato
Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.
—Julius Caesar
“The love of Jesus can overcome all adversaries, even death itself.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death
—John Milton
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
—Heraclitus
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
—Charles Dickens
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.
—Socrates
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
—Julius Caesar
Such should be the outward biography of a man in time, a putting off of dead circumstance day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
—Sun Tzu
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
—Mark Twain
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
—Charles Dickens
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Do not fear death.
—Miyamoto Musashi
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
—Julius Caesar
“In the empty tomb of Christ, we see sin forever put away and death destroyed.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
—Seneca